Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.