You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves.

An overblown conscience is an empty conscience.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.

We should distinguish between responsibility and guilt. Guilt only touches the ones who committed the crimes but the son of a criminal is not a criminal himself.

Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others.

Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.

Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction.

You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.

It is in the quiet that you gain perspective when you have to deal with the loud.

How can you be afraid to live yet scared to die?

I strongly believe that you have to get lost to find yourself.

Desperation brings out the darkness in everyone, " the man said with a shrug.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.

He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.

Let heaven-eyed Prudence battle with Desire.

We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.