Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

We cannot be sure that we have something to live for unless we are ready to die for it.

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

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

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.

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