Great Throughts Treasury

"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated."

"The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality is above all else a variable. With a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before."

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

"Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence."