Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.