We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

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

Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot grow up because he keeps growing.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.