The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Unlimited opportunities can be as potent a cause of frustration as a paucity or lack of opportunities.

A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. They inability or unwillingness to see things as they are promotes both gullibility and charlatanism.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.