The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life

You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.