Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.

Hatred is one of the poisons; like jaundice, it alters the true colors of things.

You can't remain inactive in the face of injustice without, to some extent, being guilty of it.

Every murder strikes at the heart of civilization; it is an attack on all mankind.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.

People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant.

The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.

Maybe I should put an ad online. Honor student seeks overly self-confident young man for fake relationship. Terms negotiable.

The world is full of alluring, flashy and thrilling experiences, which are illusionary traps — they are paths to nowhere.

I'm an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. 'Lopen, ' my mother always says, 'you must learn these to laugh before others do. Then you steal the laughter from them, and have it all for yourself.

To say your mindset is critical to your success is a gross understatement—it is the underpinning!

I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.

The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

The moment you buy into the idea that you're above anyone else, is the moment you need to be slapped in the face.

Keep feeding your faith until your doubts starves to death.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.