The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions.

Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.

Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.

When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened.

Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.

Flippancy may be a lance tilted in the face of fear.

Understanding why is never enough.

often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear.

My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

Character develops in stream of struggle and adversity. Character is foundation of your inner beauty which reflects in your personality.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.

By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.

I never really followed grunge.

I feel like I'm getting stronger and stronger, and I don't practice as much as I used to.