A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.