Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.

Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we have only one life and that we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day when real life will begin. And so life passes by.

The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

Simply, Winners meet the challenge rather than avoid it

As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.

I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.

Kids are so dynamic; if you're tired and you walk into a roomful of kids, your energy is brought up to their level.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

I have never been able to entertain a God-idea which was not integrally related to the fact of chipmunks, squirrels, hippopotamuses, galaxies, and light years.

Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .