To Be Fully Alive Is To Feel

There Is A Powerful Craving In Most Of Us To See Ourselves As Instruments In The Hands Of Others And Thus Free Ourselves From The Responsibility For Acts Which Are Prompted By Our Own Questionable Inclinations And Impulses.

The Fear Of Becoming A 'has-been' Keeps Some People From Becoming Anything.

There Is Probably An Element Of Malice In Our Readiness To Overestimate People - We Are, As It Were, Laying Up For Ourselves The Pleasure Of Later Cutting Them Down To Size.

Nationalist Pride, Like Other Variants Of Pride, Can Be A Substitute For Self-respect.

A Person's Creative Ability Decreases In Direct Proportion To The Degree To Which He Takes Himself Seriously.