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

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.