Everything seems stupid when it fails.

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.

The ripe apple falls, it doesn't know what else to do.

Don't spend a lifetime regretting the decisions that you made. Chances are, that someone else would have made them for you anyway.

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

It's very easy to turn a toy into an adult toy: Location, location, location.

My administration is going to enforce all trade violations against any country that cheats.

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

I'm certainly not very book smart, but I started traveling at 16, and it has enriched me in ways I could never begin to explain.

Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?

Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.