The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

I know that suffering is one place where He ministers to us the most. So to think that we've had our quota would be foolish. I am just longing for the day when all the pain stops.

Dreams do come true. If anyone's proof of that, it's me.

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.

A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost

Death for the Christian is a turning off the light because the dawn has come.

Give yourself freedom to try out new things Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow.

The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb