But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.

God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

The spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love.

Love can only be found through the act of loving.

If I must fall, may it be from a high place.

Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.

The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate--it's either in their DNA or it's not.

Sometimes horrible choices can lead to the right decision, its not where we start that's important but where we end.

How many times must hope die before tears were too deep to bear?

I'm definitely drawn to things that are new, so something specifically for me would have been fun.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.

It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.

I think the Hulk has always appealed very strongly to much younger readers than Spider-Man, because Spider-Man is an adolescent character, and the Hulk is a very childlike character.

The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around.

I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.