It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day; we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.