Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.