The Price You Pay For Being Powerful

I Have A Very Great Respect For Americans, And Having Been A Correspondent In This Country, And I Believe That Americans Are People Who Respond Much Better To Facts And Truthful, Genuine Speculation, Than They Do To Purely, Kind Of Phoney, Adulation.

There's Nothing Is This World More Instinctively Abhorrent To Me Than Finding Myself In Agreement With My Fellow-humans.

There's Far More Truth In The Book Of Genesis Than In The Quantum Theory.

A Decrepit Society Shuns Humor As A Decrepit Individual Shuns Drafts.

It Is Only Possible To Succeed At Second-rate Pursuits - Like Becoming A Millionaire Or A Prime Minister, Winning A War, Seducing Beautiful Women, Flying Through The Stratosphere, Or Landing On The Moon. First-rate Pursuits - Involving, As They Must, Trying To Understand What Life Is About And Trying To Convey That Understanding - Inevitably Result In A Sense Of Failure. A Napoleon, A Churchill, Or A Roosevelt Can Feel Himself To Be Successful, But Never A Socrates, A Pascal, Or A Blake. Understanding Is Forever Unattainable.