Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me.

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

Play the hand you're dealt.

When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.

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.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.