The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.
Ohioans are practical. We're a can-do people. Give us a problem, we'll give you a solution.
I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.
I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.
Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.
Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.
If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.
The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
We're really happy. It still kind of blows my mind that people watch the show!