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

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

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