I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.

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.

Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

Trust whatever He has for you. It will be better than anything you can plan for yourself.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.

In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings.

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.

We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.