“Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.”

“Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?”

“What do I want? I want lots of things, just like everybody else. Problem is, we can’t really have what we want, can we?”

“Men always want what they can’t have, or what other men want. It’s a scientific fact.”

“I’m less interested in proselytizing or a bigger tent for its own sake than in issues of human flourishing. What are the best conditions in which people live and flourish? It’s more the, How do we get along? What does it mean for living now?”

“The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them.”