You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.

Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.