Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.

When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

Optimism is cowardice.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise the dull craft of experimental psychology.

It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.

The fear of failure is worse than the failure itself. So be bold and courageous.

The man who dreams in sleeping, leads to sleeping when thinking

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Anything that can be dreamed is true.

Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.

I’ve done what Lorien has intended me to do, and that’s to undo damage that’s been inflicted on those who don’t deserve it.

I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature.

It's important to do things that scare you to death!

I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby.

I knew that the right person for Crossroads would come along if we were just patient and made sure that we didn't try to force anything.