Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

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

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

A man by himself is in bad company.

The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.