the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.

Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.

We are masters of our characters and in turn, slaves of their outgrowth.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Rosemary Rodriguez directed on Rescue Me for us, and I love her. She's fantastic with actresses and she's got a great sense of humor. That was a huge thing for me.

I didn't really [seriously] go out with any guys until I was 18 and met my ex-fiancé, Michael Weatherly.

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

I think it's ridiculous that you need to look a certain way to be conventionally pretty.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices.