It Is Almost As Easy To Be

There Are Some Who Become Spies For Money, Or Out Of Vanity And Megalomania, Or Out Of Ambition, Or Out Of A Desire For Thrills. But The Malady Of Our Time Is Of Those Who Become Spies Out Of Idealism.

The Problem Of Freedom In America Is That Of Maintaining A Competition Of Ideas, And You Do Not Achieve That By Silencing One Brand Of Idea.

It Is Almost As Easy To Be Enervated By Triumph As By Defeat.

We All Run On Two Clocks. One Is The Outside Clock, Which Ticks Away Our Decades And Brings Us Ceaselessly To The Dry Season. The Other Is The Inside Clock, Where You Are Your Own Timekeeper And Determine Your Own Chronology, Your Own Internal Weather And Your Own Rate Of Living. Sometimes The Inner Clock Runs Itself Out Long Before The Outer One, And You See A Dead Man Going Through The Motions Of Living.

The Tourist Who Moves About To See And Hear And Open Himself To All The Influences Of The Places Which Condense Centuries Of Human Greatness Is Only A Man In Search Of Excellence.