There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.

We must love one another or die

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal heart; For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have; Not universal love But to be loved alone.

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

A shilling life will give you all the facts.