When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.

Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.