The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

How do I work? I grope.

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.

If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.

It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque.

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.