The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

if ethics is not the engine of success, in the train of growth, it sure is a guard, with a flag, which may be green, or at times red

And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

The presidency is probably the loneliest office in America. Regardless of your friends, regardless of how good your marriage is, regardless of anything, you are alone there at the top.

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.