Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather....In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.