We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil.
I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.
The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
It is useless to send armies against ideas.
School is a foretaste of life.
When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.
It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because
I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s.
Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.