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

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.

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 greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times.

The older you get, the more you should learn to love life and appreciate the beauty that comes with age.

Went to church and fasted all day.

Oh, the humanity.... It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.

On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.

It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.

Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.

I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.