The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.

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.

Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that his soul shows itself.

A person who values their goals actually values their achievements.

We get our voice from the voices of others. Read promiscuously. Imitate, copy, but become your own voice.

You always hear about waste and abuse in Washington. And usually it doesn't mean much, because nobody ever finds where that waste and abuse is.

Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.

It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.

There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie I feel her right with me.

The Clintons believe they're under more scrutiny than anybody's ever been, but because of the way they do things they invite that scrutiny.