The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless it is presented as the embodiment of the one and only truth

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

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

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 Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.