If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood.

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.

Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.