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“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

[...] I’m so pathetically intense. I just can’t be any other way.

Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that―I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much―so very much to learn―

“Power does not alter a man’s character. It merely reveals it.”

“If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present… gratefully.”

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”

“To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. To master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength.”