EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

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

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.