Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.

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.

Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.

All candidate moves should be identified at once and listed in one's head. This job cannot be done piecemeal, by first examining one move and then look at another.

I'm a liberal to a degree, I want everybody to be free. But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater move in next door.

Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.

We've actually bought quite a number of historical pieces. We are doing a piece on the abolitionists, Harper's Ferry and the abolitionist John Brown with Paul Giamatti.

I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.

The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God

Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.

The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.