All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

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.

The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.

My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.

Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.

Adversity is the midwife of genius

Everything is nothing, and nothing is everything.

Overcome the stigma of self-marketing.

I didn't want to be the monster! I didn't want to kill this room full of harmless children! I didn't want to lose everything I'd gained in a lifetime of sacrifice and denial!

My mama taught me that anything worth doing in life should be a little scary.

Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.