Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.

I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.