A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

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

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.

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.