Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.

The complex develops out of the simple.

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

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