... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.

French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.