Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.