Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.