It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

enter the world of things as they are

Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

TV is not a baby sitter.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy.

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

The Holocaust marooned the Jewish people in history.