A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.