There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses.

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.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

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