There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement.

However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.