“But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.”

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”

“A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.”

“Of such dreams and of the rituals of them there can also be no end. The thing that is sought is altogether other. However it may be construed within men's dreams or by their acts it will never make a fit. These dreams and these acts are driven by a terrible hunger. They seek to meet a need which they can never satisfy, and for that we must be grateful.”

“What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.”

“It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one”