I think that things happen for a reason.
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and relational, and even now there are many scientists in the West seeing things totally interconnected.
Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.