“There is no effort in collecting judgements. Being wise with them requires a act of true character.”

“Being a decent human being will require effort and energy…”

“Acting is a skill that not only requires talent, but a determination: The willpower to shake off reality and plunge yourself into yourself into a character than you have to act on.”

“The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.”

“True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.”

“Making judgements about other people requires that we understand where they are coming from;their motivations and their fears. Only then can we claim to know them.”