“The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.”

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

“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”

“His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.”

“The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security and stake their own lives in order to do what they themselves think worth doing.”

“There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.”

“On the night of New Years Day, I thought of a wonderful New Years resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it.”

“The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.”

“He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.”