How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

Anger is a prelude to courage.