Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

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.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.