Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

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

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.