The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.

Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

Deliberately, on every historic occasion, we piously fake events for the benefit of photographers, while the actual event often occurs in a different fashion; and we have the effrontery to call these artful dress rehearsals authentic historic documents.

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.