It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.

Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot grow up because he keeps growing.