Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations reality is therefore abandoned.

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.

Aladdin's lamp is mine.

Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.

I drink alone in my study, huddled close to the brazier.