The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
The best strategy is always to be very strong.
There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.
Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena. . . . But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
War is merely a continuation of politics.
Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.
If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.
I love living in Vermont and I love living in New York. Does my love for Vermont give us the right to rain bombs down on Tripoli? Of course not. There are exceptional qualities about the United States. But it doesn't give us the right to impose our will on other cultures when they often don't want it.
I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.
Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.
Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today. Of course we accept drunkenness. We allow people some brief respite from the material grind. A society that subscribes to that model is a society that is going to condemn the states of consciousness that have nothing to do with the alert problem-solving mentality.