On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

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.

There is never a traffic jam created from people going the extra mile

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

Only the brave and adventuresome find God, never the timid.

We cannot exercise our faith beyond what we believe to be possible.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

Illiterates have to dictate.