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.

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

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.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.

There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.