The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless it is presented as the embodiment of the one and only truth

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