How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite!

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.