Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.

Successful action tends to become an end in itself.

The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his own eyes the cruel misery inside the Soviet promised land. It is the true believer's ability to "shut his eyes and stop his ears" to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy. He cannot be frightened by danger, nor disheartened by obstacles, nor baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.