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.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

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.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.

I wanted her to notice me, to pay attention to me. It was an irrational desire, one I‘d never experienced before.

Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others.

In America, we're tired. We're exhausted in terms of nuclear.

The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

One of the first things every press secretary assures you is, the boss has a wonderful sense of humor, because not to have a sense of humor is considered flagrantly un-American.

So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink