#inimesed

"Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world."

"Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can't be ultimately changed. It's the structure of our bones, the blood that runs through our veins."

"Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?"

as Nabokov put it, "to know your present moment" ~ this is happiness, which is almost always available. "

"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."

Arvamus: etendus "Tuhk ja akvaviit"