The real magic wand is the child's own mind.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

All we are given is possibilities — to make ourselves one thing or another.

These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.