History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.

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.

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

When you find that one person who's worth taking a bullet for is the on standing behind the trigger.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

The locker room has to be right. We've got to be patient to build this team.

We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.

It is human choices that move events.

our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.