I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

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 mind can only be as strong as the words that you repeatedly feed to it.

When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.

I love you all too much, it's one of just of my problems.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host.

I can't really work on more than one thing at a time

The underground is not a place but a way of life. You can be underground most anywhere, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Hermosa Beach, California.

Golf is golf. You hit the ball, you go find it. Then you hit it again.

No. . .I mean, I'm sorry he. . .You know, said those things to you." "It's part of being a 'good' family. Everyone's got skeletons in their closet.

When your daughter asks you to be a fairy for her 5th birthday party... you better be a damned fairy.