There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Fortunately [psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.