Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

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.

I love you like a guitar loves hands. The strings of my heart will never sing without your touch.

She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.

Getting an unsophisticated client was the golden prize. The quickest way to make money on Wall Street is to take the most sophisticated product and try to sell it to the least sophisticated client.

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

It doesnt matter how long it’s been or how impossible it looks, all the forces of darkness cannot stop what God wants to do.

I feel like when I stay focused on encouraging people, and giving them hope, and helping them live their everyday life, I think that's where I can have the most impact.

Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.

I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers.

I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white.