 Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. |
| Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. |
| Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. |
| Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. |
| Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. |
| We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. |
| A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. |
| The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. |
| It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. |
| When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. |
| To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. |
| Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent. |
| 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. |
| Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. |
| The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. |
| Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. |
| It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living. |
| To the old, the new is usually bad news. |
| It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. |
| Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. |
