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.

They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out.