Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

To want is to have a weakness.

It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up.

Never fall for a man whose chief antagonist is himself, whose chief conversational partner is the man in the mirror when he shaves.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

I do not so easily think in words.... after being hard at work having arrived at results that are perfectly clear... I have to translate my thoughts in a language that does not run evenly with them.

We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.

God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse.

The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.

There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance.

Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin.