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No young person on earth is so excellent in all respects as to need no uncritical love.

‘Ridiculous!’ we are tempted to explain to her. But how can such things be said to a woman in despair?

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

‘Ah, so you want us to be merely objects of sensuality—all right, as objects of sensuality we will enslave you,’ say the women.

No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Learn to bow to justice. Never scorn the gods.

Well, try something new each day, that’s my motto. After all, we’re given life to find out. It doesn’t last forever.

The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Is there anyone here
Who can swear before God
She has nothing to fear?
She has nothing to hide?

It is incorrect to think that fantasy is useful only to the poet. This is an insipid prejudice! It is useful even in mathematics—even differential and integral calculus could not have been discovered without it. Fantasy is a quality of the highest importance.

To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature.

To know another language is to possess another soul.

One laughs. One cries. Two uniquely human traits. And the main thing in life, my dear Harold, is not to be afraid to be human.