To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

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

For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the feeling that by the possession of some potent doctrine, infallible leader or some new technique they have access to a source of irresistible power.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.