The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

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

Liberty is a product of order.