Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.

[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.