Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

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.

True leadership is about pulling forth the gold in everyone and believing in people before they deserve it.

I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good.

You have to keep evolving.

A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.

I'm going to put on my gravestone, 'He never owned a cell phone.'

I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.

We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.

Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.