Great beauty is often perceived by human senses as pain.

Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long.

All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow.

Killing is like riding, you see. One never really loses the knack.

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name.

Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice.

I have often thought I would have been quite happy as a spider.Even a spider has the right to a mate.

I can make anything disappear, if I really want to.

In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.

I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him.

People who do not value you are worthless and those who do are priceless.

You'll never avoid every mistake. All you can do is try to do your best and live with the consequences.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

All you can do is all you can do, but all you can do is enough.

Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.

It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.

Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove.

Yes, there are circumstances where a bloody suppression is justifiable and justified.