Alexander Chase

"To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy."

"One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little."

"The movie actor, like the sacred king of primitive tribes, is a god in captivity."

"More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer Care about religion."

"To the average cigarette ]]smoker]] the world is his ashtray."

"A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed."

"The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible."

"Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul."

"Music has charms to soothe a savage breast — but not the unmusical one."

"Gods are born and die, but the atom endures."

"When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government."

"To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmill to which the rest of us feel chained incites our envy, and therefore our fury. We do not suffer him to go unpunished."

"People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction."

"The banalities of a great man pass for wit."

"For the unhappy man death is the commutation of a sentence of life imprisonment."

"The rich man may never get into heaven, but the pauper is already serving his time in hell."

"There are few successful adults who were not at first successful children."

"Walking in space, man has never looked more puny or more significant."

"The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions."

"Memory is the thing you forget with."

"Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death."

"The rich man may never get into heaven, but the pauper is already serving his term in hell."

"Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored"

"All generalizations are false, including this one."

"Apart from his comment on the propensity of people to follow where their leader beckons, even when for a change he may actually be taking them where they ought to go, his book includes these comments, none of them very cheering"

"The pavement ritual showed the industry's diurnal business face, all hustle and press agents and shaking hands, with the selected star brought down from studio Olympus (or at least the Hollywood Hills) before a public audience in broad daylight, a scene which recalls Alexander Chase's observation that "the movie actor, like the sacred king of primitive tribes, is a god in captivity"."

"When Alexander Chase wrote, "To understand is to forgive, even oneself," he summarized much of what has been learned about forgiveness through the ages. Forgiveness requires at least a bit of understanding, sometimes quite a bit."