Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.