He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

• He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
• Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
• The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.
• How goodness heightens beauty!
• Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
• Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.
• No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
• Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
• True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
• No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.