Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

A model’s opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to smile at the camera.

and everything burned in blue, everything a star

Freedom cannot recognize as law the commands and doctrines of other human beings.

The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.

In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.

But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

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

The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur.