"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."

"I can, therefore I am."

"Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."

"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."

"Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one."

"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light."

"I will speak with a straight tongue."

"I gravitate toward women."