Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed |
Without courage all virtues lose their meaning. |
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. |
Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. |
Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant. |
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public. |
You [Hitler] do your worst, and we will do our best. |
You and I must take care not to lose the next war. |
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. |
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. |
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give. |
You may try to destroy all the wealth and find that all you have done is increase poverty. |
You must look at the facts because they look at you |