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.

The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.

When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.

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

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.