You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.

Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.

A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.

Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose a soul to action, we must upset its equilibrium.

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

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