I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart

Just imagine the silence in the world, if people talked only what they knew

Don’t you think it’s sad some people are only remembered by the graffiti about them on the bathroom stalls?

I...think it much more supportable to be always alone, than never to be so.

Those who cannot cope with difficulties often fail to achieve their aims in life.

In calm water every ship has a good captain.

The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.

Perhaps we could enjoy ordinary, everyday life more if we learned to celebrate the ordinary.

Everyone wants someone they can hold and love. Someone who will be there to help pick up the pieces when everything falls apart. (Acheron)

Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don't want.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'