Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a totalitarian enemy was to intimidate him. The trouble with this theory was that while we live in a world of plot and counterplot, we also live in a world of cause and effect. Whatever the cause for the decision to legitimize and regularize deceit abroad, the inevitable effect was the practice of deceit at home.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

History is a vast early warning system.

The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us

The essence of man is imperfection.