Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

The soul is healed by being with children.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

Are you still upset I murdered our parents? - Tommy to Danny

Yes, our country has its shortcomings, but there's no moral equivalency between democracy and totalitarianism…There's no moral equivalency between propaganda and the truth.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling that desire.

Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders.

Whatever we really are, that let us be, in all fearlessness. Whatever we are not, that let us cease striving to be.

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

Have pity on a dinosaur.

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.

Any solution to a problem changes the problem.

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.