Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.

Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.

You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.

But nothing is all black in nature.

The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.