Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending -- for making a show -- and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing spectacle.

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

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