For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning...

Man only likes counting his grief, he doesn't count his happiness. But if he were to count properly, he'd see that there's enough of both lots for him.

I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.

Jesus has kept the Heaven beyond the reach of Scientific Wisdom but within the reach of Spiritual Wisdom.

Grown men do not need leaders.

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.

I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is import.

RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with.

Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one of its parts.

There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist.