A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

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

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom."