The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

There is no reason to believe that the nature of the violent minorities is now greatly different from what it was in the past. What has changed is the will and ability of the majority to react.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.