The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science and technology. The autonomous individual, also, when he can neither realize himself nor justify his existence by his own efforts, is a breeding call of frustration, and the seed of the convulsions which shake our world to its foundations.

A compilation of what outstanding people said or wrote at the age of 20 would make a collection of asinine pronouncements.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.

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

Anger is a prelude to courage.

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.