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

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

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

Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own. Whether it is our own meaningless self we are upholding, or some doctrine devoid of evidence, we can do it only in a frenzy of faith.

To change everything, simply change your attitude.

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.

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