I Am Neither An Optimist

Every Step By Which Men Add To Their Knowledge And Skills Is A Step Also By Which They Can Control Other Men.

The Tourist Who Moves About To See And Hear And Open Himself To All The Influences Of The Places Which Condense Centuries Of Human Greatness Is Only A Man In Search Of Excellence.

You May Call For Peace As Loudly As You Wish, But Where There Is No Brotherhood There Can In The End Be No Peace.

The Crime Of Book Purging Is That It Involves A Rejection Of The Word. For The Word Is Never Absolute Truth, But Only Man's Frail And Human Effort To Approach The Truth. To Reject The Word Is To Reject The Human Search.

We All Run On Two Clocks. One Is The Outside Clock, Which Ticks Away Our Decades And Brings Us Ceaselessly To The Dry Season. The Other Is The Inside Clock, Where You Are Your Own Timekeeper And Determine Your Own Chronology, Your Own Internal Weather And Your Own Rate Of Living. Sometimes The Inner Clock Runs Itself Out Long Before The Outer One, And You See A Dead Man Going Through The Motions Of Living.