Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.

Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.

You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.

I now see the necessity of a beginning.