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

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.