He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

All confessions are Odysseys.

Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago" [Without learning, life is but the image of death]

When you consistently complain about the things you are gifted to do, check your motivation.

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

The answer to having a better life is not about getting a better life, it's just about changing how we see the one we have right now.

It isn't just what you know, and it isn't just who you know. It's actually who you know, who knows you, and what you do for a living.

It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

Promise to wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.

I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.