But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.

What uneasiness lies in being loved.

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness

A true artist is an ugly man.

Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm.

I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.

Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.

I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.

Not even waste/is inviolate./The day misspent, /the love misplaced, /has inside it/the seed of redemption./Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

A species divided against itself will eventually fall.

Service is no Inheritance.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that.

I just chill. I don't stand outside too much. I do what I gotta do and chill, man, know what I'm saying? That's all. It's cool.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

By life's very nature we are compelled to find and maintain balance, or be subject to the symptoms of the lack thereof.