Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

No two persons ever read the same book.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Ignoring your conscience is the first violation of Truth.

You can courageously conquer any challenge.

Hope sustains the spirit.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.

If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.

I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life.

And when we take ourselves too seriously, we are grim about the brothers and sisters, especially the dissenting ones, and there will be no health in us and no healing humor.