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

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

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

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

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

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.