To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.

It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new identity (a new name). The boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from an awareness of a barren, spoiled life. By embracing a holy cause and dedicating their energies and substance to its advancement, they find a new life full of purpose and meaning.