Quotes from Harry Allen Overstreet

Time the devourer of everything.

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.