Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other.
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and p...
Fear is uncertainty.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.