The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.