There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.