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

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

Faith is primarily a process of identification; the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.