They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day; we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.

...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.