A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

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

Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.