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

“Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.”

“You can never get enough of what you don't really want.”

“The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.”

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

“You can never have enough of that which you don’t need.”

“How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.”