The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The living are just the dead on holiday

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

Being cool, having a 'cool' energy is just not attractive to me.

It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.

Vice is basically the love of failure.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

If you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going.

If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end

I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.

Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.