Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.

In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring gaze upon the State, with a truly filial look, as upon the Father of the flock.

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.