All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.

We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

That's why there's a devil—to judge the priests.

The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future.

Music is the soul food.

The practice of love and compassion are the most important treatment for the sickness of hatred and revival of peace in the world.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

I ain't got a job cause I ain't got a car, so I'm looking for a girl with a job and a car.

I need a dog pretty badly. I dreamed of dogs last night. They sat in a circle and looked at me and I wanted all of them.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.

I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.

The quickest way to relieve anxiety is ACTION!