Between killing and dying there's a third way: live

The past is not dead - it isn't even past

The most beautiful thing under the sun is being under the sun.

It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing—it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human race is based on.

Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know.

When we stop hoping, that which we fear will certainly come.

I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

There are secrets that ravage you, others that make you stronger.

I've known one thing for a long time: there's a role in the big machine even for someone who makes fun of it.

Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.

I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy

From apparently the basest metals we have the finest toned bells.

To them he’s the slightly less frightening alternative to the grim reaper.

After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.

Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.

I’m not really all that familiar with comic book culture.

As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.

I believe in divine forces and energies.