The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

Stories are equipment for living.

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality.

Experience is a sacred education.

It's easier to runReplacing this pain with something numbIt's so much easier to goThan face all this pain here all alone.

Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

There are people out there who want to say yes. That gave me confidence to keep asking.

When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billow past?

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

I've never disclosed for whom I'm voting.

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

Your inner being is he who men call God.

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.