The superficiality of many is a result of deep fears. It takes spare time to think things out; it takes free time to mature. People in a hurry may not think well or mature well. The next best is a state of perpetual puerility.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.