To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.