Optimism is cowardice.

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.

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.

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.

Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go that way

The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way [Margaret Thatcher] did.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.

I'm a Joseph Abboud fan. I'm a Hugo Boss fan. I'm a Brooks Brothers fan. As far as suits go, those are my go-tos.

I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.