I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.

Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning...

Man only likes counting his grief, he doesn't count his happiness. But if he were to count properly, he'd see that there's enough of both lots for him.

I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them.

The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel.

A time is coming when people will go mad, and when they see those who are not mad, they will attack them saying, "You are mad, you are not like us.

Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow children to come back home.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.

I can't figure out why fans keep coming, maybe it's because they dig the songs.