nothing is slower than the true birth of a man

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

No one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence.

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

the press is too often a distorting mirror, which deforms the people and events it represents, making them seem bigger or smaller than they really are.

For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.

To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth.