Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.

Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.

We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.

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