Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.

Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.