I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of brains, courage and initiative, by their extraordinary ability to get themselves into uncomfortable or dangerous situations and then wait in inert helplessness for someone to rescue them.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?

There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.