History is the science of people.

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.

Your love is my diamond that I want to wear near my heart. Your hug is my heaven where I want to belong always.

He sat up, going still. “Am I wearing a wife-beater, Lizvetta?” He gaped down. “Oh, come on!”Lothaire

Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.

Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers.

I urge young women to look ahead and see if they want to have a lonely old age or do they want to have what I have, which is the joy of 14 beautiful grandchildren.

Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.