These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.

There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.

You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors.

Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.