There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

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

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

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can win a man's heart one day and lose it the next. But when we break a proud spirit we achieve something that is final and absolute.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.