Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.

We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.

But memory is less disposed to compromise

It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.

Every now and then when I feel the doubt, I look inside myself and I see the way. The whole world full of possibilities. So you could be you and I could be me.

When I say 'friends, ' I use that term loosely, as I don't actually have any.

Accept God’s best for your life.

Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?

I'm constantly questioning the effects technology has had on our lives and the effect that monetary debt has had on all of us. We keep this as a dark little secret: 'This is how much interest I owe.'

Hip-hop used to be about battles, beatboxing and breakdancing. All they get exposed to now is the negative stuff.

I wanted to create an extremely sexy fragrance that would turn a man's head.

Dream Big. Start small. Act now.

The whole thing [climate change] is bogus and made up, designed like they always do to scare you.

I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.