Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.

Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.

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

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new . . . is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.