You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone.

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.

It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

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