We can take from the past its fires, and not its ashes.

Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive.

Violence is the sign of temporary weakness.

Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.

If that’s the case, I understand why emotions are hard for you. You’ve numbed yourself to make room for the grief you carry.

This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

The walk-in privilege, to walk into the Oval Office and have a conversation with the president, is not something that everybody gets.

I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.

I would like to see the Pope wearing my T-shirt.

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.