Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out.

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.

First something is a great idea, then it becomes a cause, then it becomes a business and finally it becomes a racket.

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

Successful action tends to become an end in itself.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.