The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.