“Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.”

“Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.”

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”

“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”

“I see the tasks of social sciences to discover what kinds of order actually do exist in the whole range of the behavior of human beings; what kind of functional relationships between different parts of culture exist in space and over time, and what functionally more useful kinds of order can be created.”

“sometimes it's hard to know
what to
do.”

“I know the place.
It is true.
Everything we do
Corrects the space
Between death and me
And you.”

“Sometimes I feel I do know what to believe in. Sometimes I believe in working, writing, performing, doing the work. Other times I'm full of despair and I don't even believe in that, but for some reason I will get out of bed and do something anyway, even though I don't believe in it.”

“And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do.”

“Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.”