It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

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

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

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.