Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

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.

Pivotal changes occur with every period of time

Be careful what you choose to experience, because you never remain the same person as earlier. Something intrinsically changes you forever!

She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

The shadow banking sector has played an important role in cleaning up toxic assets.

I think that Superman is the pinnacle of the DC Universe. Our feeling always was that you need to get Superman right. That was also our goal. We didn't want to ignore that this universe exists.

In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.

When you give me something that I love, then I spend a long time drilling down on it and figuring out what it is I love about it.

If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.