And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

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.

Never be discouraged. The fact that you will be a winner at the first attempt is unclear. You don’t get master’s degree after attending school on the first day. You got to endure till you get there.

You know what you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing. He's already been told twice."Darryl the cop

You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

I wonder why / no one ever told me / that the rainbow / and the treasure / were both within me.

It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

At its fundamentally flawed core, the aim of almost any learning program is to help us become who we are not.