"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless"
"Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us"
"Children are the keys of paradise"
"Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership"
"Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love"
"Animals often strike us as passionate machines"
"Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat"
"A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come"
"A man by himself is in bad company"
"A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor"
"A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed"
"A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time"
"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority"
"Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains"
"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there"
"It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words"
"With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves"
"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn"
"It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate"
"Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem"
"Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are"
"Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice"
"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation"
"We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand"
"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life"
"Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart"
"We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire"
"The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets"
"It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents"
"It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny"
"It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak"
"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living"
"It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it"
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists"
"It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities"
"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind"
