The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.

The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them on top of a pile in a junk yard, dismantling the carcass of an automobile. He stopped, shook his head and said to Francisco, 'A young man of your position ought to spend his time in libraries, absorbing the culture of the world.' 'What do you think I'm doing?' asked Francisco.

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.