In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.