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

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.

Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.