The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal.

War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

Horror alone brings peace of mind.

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

It will end in praise, if you are not singing praises, it hasn't ended.

To me you were home, to you I was just a vacation.

A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.

I'm talking about the essence of humanity. Hope is mixed into the blood of every human being, everywhere and in every time.

Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present.

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

Democracies don't go to war.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.