Things people wrote that inspire me

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

We are beginning to realize that even the most fortunate people are living far below capacity, and that most human beings develop not more than a small fraction of their potential mental and spiritual efficiency.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Words are good servants but bad masters.