I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.