Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

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.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.