There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.