A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.