Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his own eyes the cruel misery inside the Soviet promised land. It is the true believer's ability to "shut his eyes and stop his ears" to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy. He cannot be frightened by danger, nor disheartened by obstacles, nor baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence.

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.