People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

The world was floods above and fire below

Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone.

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.

Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion, or just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

We like to see our future through our children

Kids today learn a lot about getting to the moon, but very little about getting to heaven.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself.

There are things you think you cannot do. You have no idea how strong you are until you try.

I would never want to change myself to be someone I'm not.

Believing that your parents are always right.

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

I'm the happiest the saddest guy in the world can be.