Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new . . . is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.