Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.