A people's speech is the skin of its culture.
The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.
Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.
There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.