I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.

Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.