Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops according to its inner logic, passes its climax, seeks its cadence, ends, and restores silence, leisure again. Action and leisure are thus interdependent; echoing and recalling each other, so that action enlivens leisure with its memories and anticipations, and leisure expands and raises action beyond its mere immediate self and gives it a permanent meaning.

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

Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.

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

Circumstances are the seeds of literature.

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

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.