A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.

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

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.