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

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.