Nothing is proved, all is permitted.

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

Watch out success will only arrive when your action are strong enough to attract them.

All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. Is there need for lengthy explanation?

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are theemotional hallmarks of our species

It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.

I can ride horses. And I read a lot. But that's kind of it. I think it's enough.

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.