The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

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.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.