Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.

Those who feel guilty are afraid; and those who are afraid somehow feel guilty. To the onlooker, too, the fearful seem guilty.

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

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.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.