I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.