When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

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.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts.

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

When we debunk a fanatical faith or prejudice, we do not strike at the root of fanaticism. We merely prevent its leaking out at a certain point, with the likely result that it will leak out at some other point.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.