It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it.

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.