There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

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.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.