There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.

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.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses.

Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.

Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.