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.

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

Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

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

Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.