However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

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

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

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

Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own. Whether it is our own meaningless self we are upholding, or some doctrine devoid of evidence, we can do it only in a frenzy of faith.