Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective.

We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.