Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible... But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.

There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.

This god, this one word: I.

My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.