If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at the expense of another.

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emo

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments.

I think most Americans don't agree with the idea that the best qualified person should not get the job.

I'm a runner. I like to run.

Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return.

I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.

I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify.