It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.