The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.

What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.

Life has a whimsical way of kicking you in the throat. I find it tobe one huge cosmic joke at our expense, only nobody is laughingbut the forces that be—given that they are even a wee bit human.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

I think the first thing to do is to be aware that you can choose what you're thinking about and that your life is going down the path that you're thinking.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

Innovation without insight is failure.

For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods.

If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie.

Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.