The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

I have preferred chloroform to cancer

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the past as we are forced along; still adoring whatever is behind us. We insist upon worshipping 'the God of our fathers.' Why not the God of our children? Does eternity only stretch one way?

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.