What labels me, negates me.

It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

God has given each of us our "marching order." Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders acknowledge our special gifts.

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.