The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

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

We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.