That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

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

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.