Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

Men of thought seldom work well together, whereas between men of action there is usually an easy camaraderie.

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.