We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

Americans have always believed that-within the law-all kinds of people should be allowed to take the initiative in all kinds of activities. And out of that pluralism has come virtually all of our creativity. Freedom is real only to the extent that there are diverse alternatives.

Perhaps the most promising trend in our thinking about leadership is the growing conviction that the purposes of the group are best served when the leader helps followers develop their own initiative, strengthens them in the use of their own judgment, enables them to grow, and to become better contributors.

When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.