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

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.

You don't have to preach honesty to men with a creative purpose. A genuine craftsman will not adulterate this product. The reason isn't because duty says he shouldn't, but because passion says he couldn't.

People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.