The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.