A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.

... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.

Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.