The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.

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

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.