The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.

For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the feeling that by the possession of some potent doctrine, infallible leader or some new technique they have access to a source of irresistible power.

You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.