The crowd is always intellectually inferior to the isolated individual.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like, ‘I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus.’ What does this mean? I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor do the people who write these books.

人不是为失败而生。一个人可以被毁灭，但不能给打败。