The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

A man by himself is in bad company.

To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.