To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.

Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Those who feel guilty are afraid; and those who are afraid somehow feel guilty. To the onlooker, too, the fearful seem guilty.

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

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

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When the creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.