Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.

You walk into a room, see a woman, and something happens. It's chemical. What are you going to do about it?

Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and delight is like the mirage in the heavens, only plain to the eye outside; within is nothing.

We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no theaters no motion pictures, no books, no public exhibitions of any kind, no speech even which will anyway contravene his limited view of life.

All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.