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

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

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

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.

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

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Children are the keys of paradise.

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

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

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

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

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

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

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

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

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