The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations --past and present --are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia.