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

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.

To change everything, simply change your attitude.

The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new . . . is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life