How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

A person's creative ability decreases in direct proportion to the degree to which he takes himself seriously.

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.