People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.

We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.

I don't believe anyone who says love, love, love. It means self, self, self.

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim

He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.

Vulnerability of all the emotions is the one that is most often mistaken for weakness. In reality however the opposite is true

Let the work speak for itself.

Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.

Every now and then you'll nail one that's really, really special. And that's what you live for.

I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasnt.

Write from what you know into what you don't know.

I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.