Children are the keys of paradise.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

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