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

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

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

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.