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

Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.

Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else - we are the busiest people in the world.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can win a man's heart one day and lose it the next. But when we break a proud spirit we achieve something that is final and absolute.