Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

Jiu Jitsu can be a source of total transparency such as a mirror, but it takes a conscious choice to see what it has to say.

In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ambitions than mere romance.

The proof of humanity is that sometimes, we all make mistakes.

My dear Keats go on, don't despair, collect incidents, study characters, read Shakespeare and trust in Providence.

None are completely wretched but those who are without hope and few are reduced so low as that.

A coach wouldn’t throw you to the wolves if he didn’t think you had some wolf in you.

I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.

If there is no adventure in your life, it is as if you live no life! Adventure is the real soul of man; without it, He is a stub!

Obviously I don't have whatever it is you need to be a successful writer.

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.