A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.

Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!