Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation’s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

No leader sets out to become a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders. So the point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completely—all your skills, gifts, and energies—in order to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You must, in sum, become the person you started out to be and enjoy the process of becoming.

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

The neurotic and the artist - since both live out the unconscious of the race - reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.

Whoever finds love<br> beneath hurt and grief<br> disappears into emptiness<br> with a thousand new disguises.

Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide-angle lens.

The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.