You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

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.

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

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

Confidence is the quiet assurance you are enough.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not.... We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.

The central question in this election [2016] is really what kind of country we want to be and what kind of future we'll build together.

Happiness is overrated. It comes and goes just like sadness and miseryboth fleeting. What's important is peace. With all.

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.

For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never."

It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.

Yeah, writers do hate writing.