There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.

Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.