We are made kind by being kind.
The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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.
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...
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
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.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Anger is the prelude to courage.
However much we guard against it we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.
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.
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.
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.
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us.