The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.

The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.

It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.