Death deserves dignity.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

The price of ignorance is usually a life of frustration and destruction.

If I am going to be a monster, the least I could do is be well fed!

Becoming a mom forced me to re-prioritize and make room for the things that are most important, while recognizing that there are things I can let go of, and the world won't crumble around me.

I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."

The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people.

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.

It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

There wasn't a second that passed when you weren't on my mind. You own me, Eva. Wherever I am, whatever I'm doing, I belong to you.