History is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past.

I don’t want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

"Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher."

The only way to understand another culture is to assume the frame of reference of that culture.

The psychologist must avoid all teleological interpretations.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.