We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.