A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising.

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact