There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

The people with the clear heads are the ones who look life in the face, realize that everything in it is problematic, and feel themselves lost. And this is the simple truth: that to live is to feel oneself lost. Those who accept it have already begun to find themselves, to be on firm ground.

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

The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly endowed individuals which the creation of this new world presupposed. Still less will he admit the notion that all these facilities still require the support of certain difficult human virtues, the least failure of which would cause the rapid disappearance of the whole magnificent edifice.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.