So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri

He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is . . . a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being-an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner-life is a slave of his surroundings as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.