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.

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

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.

Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?

A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his humanhood or is still playing with masks and roles and status symbols. And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.