My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.

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.

It is only when you don't want to do something that you never get the time to do it.

I've always thought that if I bury my feelings now, I can dig them up later when I have time to deal with them.

I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.

If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.

Patriotism has a lot to do with the success of the show

Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity.

I get up at the same time every morning.

From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles will be nine.

I'm not a computer girl.