“What the common man calls Evil, he once told me, is nothing more than the fear of one’s own potential.”

“Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.”

“One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War.”

“Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.”

“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”

“A MAN FEARED

A man feared that he might find an assassin;
Another that he might find a victim.
One was more wise than the other.”

“There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.”

“In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.”

“Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.”

“My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.”