It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.