Language was invented to ask questions.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

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

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

The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.