It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific.

Instead of an unhinged lunatic you may glimpse a punctured soul-a mere human being like you.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

That's the best way to live your life: Don't listen to what other people think. Just follow your heart.

Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.

We grow into that which we admire.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.