But even those five-and-forty minutes were too long, the bored me --and boredom is the coldest thing in the world.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Church must lead all other spheres of influence.We find people from all the mountains there.The church leaders must be able to mentor them

People have some really crazy ideas about love, friends and relationships. They have the absurd belief that their friends, children, family, lovers and companions can make them happy.

I know my mom always likes to give the over-the-top 'wow' pieces at baby showers.

Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e're loose with that.

We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power.

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

Truth is what most contradicts itself.

A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like this doughnut.