Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.