Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

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.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.