When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.