'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society.
This is the greatest paradox: the emotions cannot be trusted; yet it is the emotions that tell us the greatest truths.
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things that I would take seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would go more places. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less spinach. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles.
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.
I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.
I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions. The Jungian view would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.
Never give up, because you never know if the next try is going to be the one that works.
We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.