Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.