There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

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.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.