Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can win a man's heart one day and lose it the next. But when we break a proud spirit we achieve something that is final and absolute.

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

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.