The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

Successful action tends to become an end in itself.

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.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.