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.

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.