The Killer instinct is not perceived by words, but by look.

I end up saving the world, just to save you

Despair... It hides away propagates, expands, and finally explodes

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

Mozart's music gives us permission to live.

The atmosphere is much too near for dreams. It forces us to action. It is close to us. We are in it and of it. It rouses us both to study and to do. We must know its moods and also its motive forces.

As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.

Men reverence one another, not yet God.

If everyone doesn't pay the price to win, then everyone will pay the price of losing.

Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all

In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is that you are never given the intellectual framework for calling your faith into question.

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.