Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms.

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.

I can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.