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.

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.

We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.

They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

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