"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

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.

Seek not outside yourself heaven is within.

Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.

I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.

Told you, Rose. Get too close to the sun, and you'll burn." -Edward Elric

Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.

If they had wanted to punish me, they should have kept me in a communal apartment. Then I would have become a wreck.

Something must die so that others can live.

Use the right word, not its second cousin.

Maybe mom is my alter ego and the woman I'm able to be when I'm working.

I think when the music and the product is amazing, people buy it.