We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

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

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.