Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

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

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.