It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.