“I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.”

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”

“Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do. ”

“We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.”

“In the disturbances caused by scarcity of food, the mob goes in search of bread, and the means it employs is generally to wreck the bakeries. This may serve as a symbol of the attitude adopted, on a greater and more complicated scale, by the masses of today towards the civilization by which they are supported … Civilization is not "just here," it is not self-supporting.”

“The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.”

“The characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that, the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre, has the gall to assert its right to mediocrity, and goes on to impose itself where it can.”