The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

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

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.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

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.