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

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

Anger is a prelude to courage.

We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.