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

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.