A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips.

FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

I am not the kind of person I want to be.

Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.