"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

"Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership."

"There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house."

"A man by himself is in bad company."

"What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?"

"It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor."

"Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith."

"There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his."

"Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled."

"A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come."

"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."

"Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners."

"The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity."

"We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution."

"Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor."

"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

"When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths."

"The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully."

"Children are the keys of paradise."

"Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem."

"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 greatest weariness comes from work not done."

"The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop."

"Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself."

"It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men."

"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life."

"Facts are counterrevolutionary."

"Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love."

"Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake."

"The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future."

"Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true."

"The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody."

"It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

"Animals often strike us as passionate machines."

"It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny."

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

"The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets."

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."

"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living."

"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature."

"It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it."

"Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect."

"The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself."

"It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence."

"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."

"We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails."

"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."

"It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate."

"Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart."