A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.

What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.

When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.