Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline.
Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...