Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.

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

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.