People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.