There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.

We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials say, 'Your longing for 3.2 beer is very important. Your longing for skin that doesn't have any wrinkles in it, that's very, very, very important.' The adult says, 'No, I've got wrinkles, so what?'

One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.

In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.

In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.