...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

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

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.