When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

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

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

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.