Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.