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

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

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

I almost trust her to burn the bridges while standing at the cliff herself. She hardly agrees to be on the same page as others, either ahead of all or all in a different book.

I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Any shlub can pick up a girl at a bar. Want a challenge? Try keeping a beautiful woman happy for ten years running.

There is no greater love than this. There is no greater gift that can ever be given. To be willing to die, so another might live -- there is no greater lover than this.

If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.