Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else

Repentance is a result of God's kindness, not a prerequisite to it.

He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.

Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.

80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems ... they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

I'm what you'd call a regular guy with a big job.

To myself alone do I owe my fame. [Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.]

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

If we don't start, it's certain we can't arrive.