The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

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.

All life on earth is inextricably bound together in a web of mutual interdependence.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

The crowning feature of the federal system is the supremacy of the judiciary over all other branches of government in matters relating to the rights of persons and property.

When you cannot be just through virtue, be so through pride.

It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

When I'm treating myself, it's a full-on burrito, all loaded up!

Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.

That's the way I've been educated: I always think about what I missed and the things that you did, you did them, so you don't have to think about them any more.

I'll drown my beliefs. To have you be in peace.