Who said “Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”?

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

“Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.”

“She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.”

“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.”

“My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.”

“We moralise among ruins.”

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“Duty cannot exist without faith.”

“Man is more powerful than matter.”

“Success is the child of audacity.”

“There is no education like adversity.”