Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.