“The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.”

“Our passionate preoccupation with the sun, the stars and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. ”

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

“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”

“The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.”

“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.”

“It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. ”