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

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.

The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So is Aristotle. Spinoza is there and so is Kats. Shelly and Byron adn Sam Johnson are there waiting to tell us their magnificent stories. All you have to do is walk in the library door and the great company open their arms to you. They are so happy to see you that they come out with you into the street and to your home. And they do what hardly any friend will-- they are silent when you wish to think.