That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

What you can become you are already.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.

In a good play, everyone is in the right.

There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.

My life needs editing.

If you were an animal, what kind would it be?""A dog. I'd take people in my teeth like rats and shake some sense into them.

I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.

You can have my credit card, baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady.

When I could no longer cling to my normal supports I discovered that true support and real safety lie far beyond the structures of our world.

The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression.

I don't think I really started to seriously compose until around that time when I was 40.

Children are very wise intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.

Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth—the sun, the moon, the stars—with perfection, and yet we don’t trust Him to manage our lives!

Three years between records is longer than average. Double albums are much more of a statement. I really wanted to put myself out there as much as I possibly could.