Abasement degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.

...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections.

Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

Those who forever seek the will of God are overrun by those who do it.

Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable.