He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!

[A dog is] a bundle of pure love, gift-wrapped in fur.

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'

Buy a friend; hire a lawyer.

Hillary Clinton is more in the center of things than I am, but she also knows how to work with the opposition, which is a necessary talent in politics right now.

Hey, God made us sexual creatures. If he wanted teenagers to wait that long, he would have made puberty start at twenty-five.

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

A tiny detail can make you feel completely different. I feel different if I wear something that I'm slightly uncomfortable in.