There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense - you're ready for him. You tell him there's something above sense. That here he must not try to think, he must feel. He must believe. Suspend reason and you can play it deuces wild.

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the conviction that ideas matter . . . . That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one's mind matters . . .