Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

Love, too, was just a question of time

Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.

And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.

They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.

Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.

Men who have nothing to lose never give a thought for eternal life.

Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.

Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!

Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.

When love takes you by the hand and leaves you better, that is home. That's the place to stake your claim and build your life.

I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur

When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak.

Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.