He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music.

A general must be shot or befriended - but never hurt.

The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.

On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its highest forms; and on the other, it is from them that the community recovers the social substance with which it had nourished them, transfigured by their creative alchemy into a still higher social substance.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.