Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

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.

Lies are like muscles: it takes practice to make them strong.

Each of us is a story, waiting for a devoted reader who will take us off the shelf and embrace all our plot twists.

Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show.

It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on.

I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.