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

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.

The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.