Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

We can never have enough of that which we do not want.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way.

There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for.

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.