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

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Children are the keys of paradise.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

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

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

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