In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

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

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

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

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

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

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.