Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

It is only when we are in the habit of recognizing our opinions as a partial experience seen through our stereotypes that we become truly tolerant of an opponent.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

I wish you well - if you will die. May you rest in peace.

We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

We see things not as they are, but as we are. Our perception is shaped by our precious experiences.

I was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature.

So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.

The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.

Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.