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

You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached.

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.

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

What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.