More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.

To change everything, simply change your attitude.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.