Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.