Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.

Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.