Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

We see through others only when we see through ourselves.