Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use their language in the narrow sense of the mind. Something that goes even much further than that is not the appeal to logic and reason, but some kind of emotional awareness of the other people.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.