Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

[The designated or chosen leader tries to] articulate and justify the resentment dammed up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breathtaking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages the world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.