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.

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

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