Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

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.

How queer it was for two lovers to suddenly turn into strangers?

Once you stop learning, you start dying

Be aware of your breathing as often as you are able, whenever you remember. Do that for one year, and it will be powerfully transformative. And it's free.

Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.

Some people will always be disappointed.

In the distant future, I don't want to be remembered; I want to remember!

Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.

I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear