The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

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.

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.

But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.

If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.

If you're an artist and you have dreams don't stop fighting because dreams really do come true.

I've always been pretty patient so I usually don't mind waiting!

I did not know till now how irresolute a character was mine.

I literally want to work until I'm in the grave.

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

God delights to see His people rejoice in what He has provided.