It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.