Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline.
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.