In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

We choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

I prefer the company of animals more than the company of humans. Certainly, a wild animal is cruel. But to be merciless is the privilege of civilized humans.

Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.

Once in your life, try something. Work hard at something. Try to change. Nothing bad can happen.

Nothing is easier for passion than to overcome reason, but the greatest triumph is to conquer a man's own interests.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.

The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.

I can't say no. But I did say, "OK. But have another song just in case."