Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off.

In an empire as unruly as Rome, it is quite easy to get away with something as thespian as murder.

It would be wonderful if ideas could be the new rock 'n roll

Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big!

Some say if only my fears and doubts will leave then I will get to work. But instead you should get to work and then your fears and doubts will leave.

I always had good students.

If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.