The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be snagged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.