The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.

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

To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.