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.

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

Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.

Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.

We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.