The agony of man is always longer than the fleeting moments of bliss. The trick is to reverse those two.

Showing your compassion to another human takes less energy than hating him.

Religion is like wax. How anyone deals with it is decisive for how it will look like.

Words and laws in this world made place for signs and symbols.

To close a fellow human being in your heart compels more respect than attending 1000 Christmas Masses.

The blind cannot see, but nothing escapes him. The others can see but them eludes the things the blind can see.

The unknown is just as unknown as the ability to discover the known inside it.

There is no art when one does something without intention.

In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.

The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

I do not believe that the average person wants a 'map' of his face - I believe he wants to be idealized.

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

I am such a political person.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Like a therapist hairdressers are in a position of trust. We are transforming not just how a person looks but how they feel.

If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.