Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.

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.

Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.

There is room in history for all of us.

A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.

The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.

And once again the government has failed to get the kind of cooperation from the relatives that might allow the case of this young boy to end in a civilized manner that is best for him.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

The key to successfully working with each other is that they respect each other and their abilities.