There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses.

Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.

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

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.