Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

Children are the keys of paradise.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.