In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms of material payment, no matter what fortune he makes, no matter what millions he earns. But the man who works as a janitor in the factory producing that invention, receives an enormous payment in proportion to the mental effort that his job requires of him. And the same is true of all men between, on all levels of ambition and ability.

The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.

I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.

She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.