When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish

if you rest at work, you will work at rest

Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.

I don't use much Obamacare, I must be honest with you.

Put the walls up. Get the better walls. There's no reason the army website should be hacked.

It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.

That's something that rationally and logically I can't try to figure out, how somebody "transitions" so rapidly and so drastically, but I don't worry about it now.

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.