The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.