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.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

I wonder how many books you have read?

We’re in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention.

When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, "Buffeted but not broken.

Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.

When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.

Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal–it was business.

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

Easy street is a blind alley.