There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.