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.

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.