And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.

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.

If you are filled with your own ways and bored with life, check your relationship with God - your boredom could be a signal that you have slide away from your creator.

Throw a blanket over it!

I believe that this neglected wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

I'd just like to say that I have a personal disgust for small dogs, like poodles. I have some serious physical problems with them. Everything about them means I must kill them. I must.

It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Work is your life, it’s not a rehearsal. You work 7 days a week so you may as well enjoy those days.

Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.

Things aren't magically better if that's what you're hoping for. It's not that simple.