Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.
There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are.
I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative that makes sense. Much of that work involves demythologizing family myths and cultural myths - getting free of what we have been told about ourselves.
The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.
The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.
My fans are always extremely loyal.
The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should go on and on from one technological innovation to the next, which would cause the economy to "grow" and make everything better and better. This of course implied at every point a hatred of the past, of all things inherited and free. All things superceded in our progress of innovations, whatever their value might have been, were discounted as of no value at all.
Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.