The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it man would possibly not want to live in the world.

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.

The road to success is often paid with so many sacrifices.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters

Do not get attatched to the world as it is. Because the world is changing something new is coming.

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.

But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.