What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

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.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'

I thought basketball was a game for women. My mother played basketball, and so did my sister.

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

Anytime where you're challenged, physically or mentally, you rise to the occasion in different ways.

I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.

Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.

And I love what I do and I love skating.