There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day; we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility