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

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

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

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.