In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.
Shall we be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word?
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
So in the Libyan fable it is toldAre we now smitten."
On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.