“ The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. ”
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man’s frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
~ Max Lerner
Every man has two counties--his own and America.
What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
