When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome

He created us for adventure, not ease.

Catching something is purely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief lightens all worry dissolves all fear and anxiety.

Co-leadership should permeate every organization at every level.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.

In the Emperor's New Clothes, they got a different celebrity to do each voice. They drew up a picture of each character and then each actor wrote their own part

Other men's pains are easily borne.

The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away.

It's fun to be surrounded by people that you love.