Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

Man is the cruelest animal.