Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

There is no reason to believe that the nature of the violent minorities is now greatly different from what it was in the past. What has changed is the will and ability of the majority to react.

Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

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