When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.