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I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.

I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.