To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

Unlimited opportunities can be as potent a cause of frustration as a paucity or lack of opportunities.

Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.