Unlimited opportunities can be as potent a cause of frustration as a paucity or lack of opportunities.

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.