It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.

Although you have so far demonstrated little faith in my ability to pay, I yet hope to demonstrate that I am somebody who pays his debts-for example, to you.

If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.