I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
— Eric Hoffer
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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.
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
