All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

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.

My heart is yours to break

Genius is trying to figure out what Genius is.

We only listen to what we want to hear.

He's so old his social security number is two digits.

Life is painting a picture not doing a sum.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. NO one teaches you how to say good-bye.

American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.

A value strategy is of little use to the impatient investor since it usually takes time to pay off.