When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.