Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

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

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.