First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising.

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses.