Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

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.

Truth is Bitter & It's the Real Beauty in Ugliness.

Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

Remember that your job as a practicing writer is to remember it's never going to be perfect on your first pass.

A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out.

I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day. Otherwise, it's going to be a bad day. I also love Jelly Bellies. But that's bad. Don't tell my mom.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.

Hitler could not tolerate too much social contact.

Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues.