Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to 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.

We have no quarrel with the German nation, One would not quarrel with a flock of sheep.But, generation after generation, They throw up leaders who disturb our sleep.

The vile are trampled beneath the feet of other pigs.

Create each day anew.

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what writing a screenplay is.

Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.

Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.

I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.

The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.

Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn’t I wish you hadn’t I wish you’d left me alone.