Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax.

There is nothing wrong with being the most important person under the sun if everybody else is just as important as you are.

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.

The artist injects the spirit of life into a culture.

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.