When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.
To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.