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.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.

It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.