We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.

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

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.