Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

No one has a right to happiness.

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

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

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.