It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

Language was invented to ask questions.

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

When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.