Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

Information is not culture. In the mind of a truly educated person, facts are organized, and they make up a living world in the image of the world of reality.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.