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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes.
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.