Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.