Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable.

Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.