To live means to have ... a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something we make it empty.

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.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.

The Bible teaches that there will be a famine of the Word of God in the last days . . . spiritual starvation leads to spiritual death.

I don't think BitCoin has ever been anything but a legitimate enterprise. Currency is currency, it's used for good and ill.

Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.

I weep at everything. I love things so much - I just never want to dilute that.

I build the individual modules to meet a demand. If I need the music to change direction, I want to have the tools to be able to do that.

Protection of human life can be costly; but so is the neglect of that protection.

One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

I don’t want to be seen smiling, having fun, or eating.