No one has a right to happiness.

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

We are made kind by being kind.

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