One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

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.

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

One of the liabilities of being a deep thinker, Wyatt mused, was that it left him vulnerable to existential crises.

All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.

John Grady looked at the table. The paper cat stepped thin and slant among the shapes of cats thereon. He looked up again. Yessir, he said. Just me and him.

Young warriors are always eager for battle. Old warriors know better.

I try to eat on the healthier side, but baked goods are hard to resist. I just love sweet things.

The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.

You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.