The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.

Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.

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

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.