The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

Victory - a matter of staying power.

Duck-bill, n. Your account at your restaurant during the canvas-back season.

Power has destroyed many people - not really. Power doesn't destroy anyone. People apply it poorly and it can ruin their lives. Power is like fire. Fire is neither good nor bad. It's how you use it.

Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

If you put everything, your heart and soul into a campaign, it might take you a while to come around to the realization that, you know, another person has won.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.