A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

War is the health of the state.

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.

All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.

I only need to survive on tea, bread and fruits. I can keep working.

Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection. It means a state of society in which some men are forced to accept from others the purposes which control their conduct.

I look at people who aren’t us and I hate them.

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball.

I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.

A person who seems to have all of the answers, usually isn't listening.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

There are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I'm not.

Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die.