people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.

[The designated or chosen leader tries to] articulate and justify the resentment dammed up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breathtaking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages the world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

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

Those who feel guilty are afraid; and those who are afraid somehow feel guilty. To the onlooker, too, the fearful seem guilty.