People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it does...n't go to my head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are like... thin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that partic...ular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters--there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That's why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Ever...ything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discr...iminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after seve...re universal laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »