Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.