Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.