Anger is a prelude to courage.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.