Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners.

It is too early to feel fear of the future when one is under 30, and too late after that. What I mean is that one must never allow fear to become one's permanent sense of life. The important thing is to prepare yourself intellectually to deal with whatever circumstances you may encounter, which requires that you define your values fully, clearly and rationally -- and never betray them.

I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.

The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.

I am. I think. I will.

All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost.