Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
There is perhaps some hope to be derived from the fact that in most instances where an attempt to realize an ideal society gave birth to the ugliness and violence of a prolonged active mass movement t...
The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.
Anger is the prelude to courage.
It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have 'something worth fighting for' they do not feel like fighting.
Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.
To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy or to pursue any excessive desire diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.
When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced and partakes of the nature of a protest.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
However much we guard against it we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.