"Animals often strike us as passionate machines."

"Faith is primarily a process of identification the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal."

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

"The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction."

"To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy or to pursue any excessive desire diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self."

"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."

"Fair play with others is primarily not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us."

"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."

"Anger is the prelude to courage."

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

"If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope."

"Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage."

"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."

"A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past."

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

"Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action."

"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."

"People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility."

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

"It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words."

"The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless."

"A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time."

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

"It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities."

"Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent."

"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."

"Power corrupts the few while weakness corrupts the many."

"To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life."

"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."

"If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and advantages have ceased to be self-evident."

"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

"When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion."

"We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams."

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything."

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."

"Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat."

"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist."

"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance."

"It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak."

"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."

"To the old, the new is usually bad news."