They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

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

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.