A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

Faith in humanity, in posterity, in the destiny of one's religion, nation, race, party or family-what is it but the visualization of that eternal something to which we attach the self that is about to be annihilated?

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.