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

Children are the keys of paradise.

No totalitarian censor can approach the implacability of the censor who controls the line of communication between the outer world and our consciousness. Nothing is allowed to reach us which might weaken our confidence and lower our morale. To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

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