Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.

If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by his barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.

Only the rich can get justice, only the poor cannot escape it.

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

Monopoly is business at the end of its journey.

Corporations can have no soul but they can love each other.

Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

I drank my bottle of milk and ate my morsel of bread somewhere on the outskirts, while I circumspectly studied my environment or else fell to meditating on my own harsh lot.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

If my team won a national title and no one got drafted, I'd be disappointed.

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.

Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the fore and eventually grows into reality's existence.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.