It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

All confessions are Odysseys.

When God opens the windows of heaven for rain to flow, those who will enjoy are those who sow! Don't misuse the blessings of God... Get a seed today to grow!

At independence, Tanzania had 350, 000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55, 000 elephants left.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.

Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue.

The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden.

In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.

The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business.

When you are in doubt abstain.