There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

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

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.