Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.