Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.
People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.
People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.
Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.
One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.