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

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

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

You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.