The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.