Obviously, not everybody who dies becomes a ghost, otherwise those who are psychic would be aware of shouldering through deep crowds of assorted shades every time they moved.

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

the possession of power brings on madness.

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

Regardless of where you started, there is always the next level. You need to keep leveling up your skills.

When you are looking for love, then love is spreading its net to catch you.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.

Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition.

Accursed be he who plays with the devil.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things.