I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.

Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.

You can't remain inactive in the face of injustice without, to some extent, being guilty of it.

Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.

People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.

The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly.

Murder is murder, as much a curse to the slayer as to the slain, and cannot be a matter of indifference, whoever the dead may be.

My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

I need one more bass less.

Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.

Pretty fortunate that with the exception of two months when I was 23, that I worked in a law office pushing paper around. I was always able to eke out a living somehow. So I'm blessed.

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.

The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive.

Donald [Trump]. I understand rules are very hard for you. They're very confusing.