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

Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.

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

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.

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