No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

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

In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them