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

It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.