Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.