Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
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.
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Children are the keys of paradise.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.