"France is your natural enemy ; she is more so as a republic than as a monarchy. We know less at what point a nation will stop than a king."

"The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave."

"Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own point of view, or the more he is prepared to admit the…"

"I'm going to climb up this ladder, you understand, to this gate that's like this high and I'm going to pass two dogs and some bags and myself over the thing into a cab driver's arms. THAT's my plan!"

"Meditation is not some strange technique that we have to learn with great effort and difficulty. There is already a strong element of meditation in our lives, but we are simply not aware of it."