It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.