Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending -- for making a show -- and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing spectacle.

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.