Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.