A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

When the image is new, the world is new.

Our house is our corner of the world.

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

ISIS simply do not have ideological, theological, or popular support. And this is a criminal organization that is funding their criminality with things like drug trade and selling oil.

Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

You lose the speed before the stamina.

What like a bullet can undeceive!

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

Blaming others is excusing yourself.

I saw 'Captain America' in 3D. It's cool. I liked the beginning. It's a really good setup.