Paradox with him was only truth standing on its head to attract attention

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'