Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

I am not now That which I have been.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.