“To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.”
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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
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.
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.