The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving, if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre.
