Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom."

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses.

However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.