A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

Faith in humanity, in posterity, in the destiny of one's religion, nation, race, party or family-what is it but the visualization of that eternal something to which we attach the self that is about to be annihilated?