Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

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.

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.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Thoughts were zipping around my head like fireflies in a jar, bumping into each other, blinking on and off.

The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.

My mum wants the best for me. And I like having my mum around me.

Even five minutes spent in silence will nurture and revive your soul and spirit.

...the last player I truly idolize... No other footballer is more worthy of the number 10 shirt than him. (on Maradona)

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.

I thought it was interesting when [Bill Clinton] said, I married my best friend, because people are always asking, what is the nature of their marriage.

Words, words. They're all we have to go on.