Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing with the unknown. The unlearned have often rushed in where the learned feared to tread, and it is the credulous who are tempted to attempt the impossible. They know not whither they are going, and give chance a chance.

It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.