The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.

A human being is all hope and impatience.

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.

If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?

You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.

Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.