Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.

EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.