Living is having and following a purpose. That's all.

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax.

This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought.

You can remember times when you were a kid, when life looked too doggoned deliciously beautiful to be left alone. So you could feel like that again if you worked at it.

A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.