It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

The soul is healed by being with children.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

...and to this day the rare traveller who knows the language and customs even of the worst of the tribes is safer amongst them than in the neighbouring Cossack settlements.

I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.

Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life.

When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat.

Whatever the reason, lying is a bad thing.

I don't care if the whole world is against you or teasing you or saying you are not gonna make it. Believe in yourself, no matter what.

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.

We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.

America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.