Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot grow up because he keeps growing.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.