You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.

An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.