The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others. The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.