How incessant and great are the ills with which a pr...

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact th...

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is...

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it...

Joy is the serious busine...

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot...

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of eve...

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather t...

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ance...

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you l...

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable e...

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievemen...