No victor believes in chance.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.