They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.

Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot grow up because he keeps growing.

...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.

It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.

We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.