There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.

God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.

A joke is a very serious thing.

There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.