I have a plan-to go mad.

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.

Be gentle and humble in heart.

I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.

The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

I would get in fights a lot. My voice was so heavy, kids would say you sound like a boy, so I would start beating them up.

The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

Divorce sucks. Let me tell you, after five years of marriage, it is devastating to have the person with the good credit move out.