Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

There is no reason to believe that the nature of the violent minorities is now greatly different from what it was in the past. What has changed is the will and ability of the majority to react.

Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.