Anger is a prelude to courage.

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music.

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.