The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

The universal view melts things into a blur.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon.

Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.

There are no speed limits on the road to success.

If you are a successful person and you let a lot of people in and around your life, they can drain your power. It won't go to them, but it will leave you.

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

The book. Calming object. Held in the hand.

Guys think I'm staring them down, but they watch ME for signs. Why can't I do the same to them?

If you work on a new product launch, spent time in a new geography, or work to develop a completely new skill, you have no choice but to figure out new ways to solve problems.

I would never jump under a subway car because that would delay all the people behind me. How inconsiderate!

I move with the time. Whatever's happening in time, I'm in.