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

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

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.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science and technology. The autonomous individual, also, when he can neither realize himself nor justify his existence by his own efforts, is a breeding call of frustration, and the seed of the convulsions which shake our world to its foundations.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.