Communists are frustrated capitalists.

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.

Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication in the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.

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

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

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.