The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.