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

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.

Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.