Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

We awaken by asking the right questions.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'

He thinks it's his day, and when you think it's your day, it usually is.

Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.

There's nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us - or admitting we can't do it all ourselves.

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

Each person enters the world "called," like an oak tree, to fulfill their soul’s agenda.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.