I like people who can do things

I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, "Are you victimizable?

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.