A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.

In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.

Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.