For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

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.

TO CUT THROUGH problems, we need problems.

Alcohol makes man into a monkey and then monkey into a donkey. Thus, there is evolution degradation.

It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another.

America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in.

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

I don't think the rich or the poor are to blame, .. I think we are all to blame.

The reason I want to be alone, is I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've went right if I had did 'em on my own

Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.

Out of love, God becomes man. He says: 'See, here is what it is to be a human being'.

My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.