Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.

Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.

A human being is all hope and impatience.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.