You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

The essence of Gestalt psychology is to understand the laws of the organization of the whole.

I’ve learned over the years that the market is always right.

最好的故事是那些让我们质疑我们所知道的故事。

People always think they’re going to write a book. They think they’re going to write a book, and then they don’t.

为社会正义而斗争是人类最神圣的职责。

Reason to rule, but mercy to forgive: the first is law, the last prerogative.