A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

To be happy you need to take charge of your life by choosing to live in a beautiful state always because others might not have a plan for you.

Money is not my definition of success

Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Vision evokes emotion. There is no such thing as an emotionless vision.

Problems always start long before you really, really see them.

I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact as the rise and fall of Rome.

This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.