Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

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.

Many of us have no appetite for spiritual things because we are absorbed in the sinful pleasures of this world. We have been eating too many of the devil’s delicacies.

I used to sit in front of my father's Jag, watching the raindrops run their kamikaze suicide missions from one edge of the windshield to the wiper blade.

In the business world cooperation is essential.

I got a story, ain't no moral, I let the bad guy win every now and then.

And an apprenticeship to whatever gadgetry is useful in a technical world

Sometimes, when you're not getting a whole lot of attention, you're actually walking the right path.

When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.

Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.

Life's bare as a bone.