...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best.

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.

How could we have been afraid of her? She was only dead. It’s the living we fear.

Sometimes I think that we're the aliens.

All great truths began as blasphemies.

It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.

Things may move slow in the academic world, but I continue to move at a pace relative to the urgency of the moment, looking forward to the time when the academic world can catch up.

I wish I had a funny story.

Why'd you leave the match, huh?

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true. And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.