The perishableness of life...imparts value, dignity, interest to life.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.

When shame becomes a management style, engagement dies. When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation .

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Every TODAY has a better version, called TOMORROW.

The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.

I don't trust lawyers and journalists.

Failure is our most important product.

Life is multi-layered and there's no way I could do my life justice in one pat answer.

The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.

There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.