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

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

Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist.

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

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

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

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