The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it.

If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.