Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

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

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.