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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'

A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.