The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

Language was invented to ask questions.

The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

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