No one has a right to happiness.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.