Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.

When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word 'woman' and raise it specially?

Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.

The self is every person's true enemy.

In truth, it is I who have defiled myself, for one is one s own fiercest enemy.

Live and die your own way, unnoticed.

I wanted to escape from love, but didn't know how.

To what end, he wondered, had the Divine created the stars in heaven to fill a man with feelings of inspiration one day and insignificance the next?

Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought.

Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

You have not failed until you quit trying.

After all, the world is still great.

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.

Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life.