 The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. |
| It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. |
| We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. |
| Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. |
| Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. |
| The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. |
| A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor. |
| It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. |
| It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. |
| What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? |
| The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. |
| The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it. |
| Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled. |
| People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. |
| When people are bored it is primarily with themselves. |
| To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. |
| The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. |
| It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. |
| We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. |
| Facts are counterrevolutionary. |
