"Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future."

"To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power."

"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values."

"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."

"There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive."

"In the quiet sanctuary of self-reflection, the soul finds its rhythm. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows hope is the anchor of a weary soul."