The sword of destiny has two edges. You are one of them.

To be neutral does not mean to be indifferent or insensitive. You don't have to kill your feelings. It's enough to kill hatred within yourself.

People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves... they feel better then. They find it easier to live.

Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.

A story can only be contained in a book.

Prawda jest córą czasu poczętą w przypadkowym i krótkotrwałym romansie ze zbiegiem okoliczności.

They are not demons, not devils...Worse than that.They are people.

You mistake the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens

He knew that the disdain for death and crazy courage of youngsters stemmed from a lack of imagination.

Night and day the streets resounded with music, song, and the clinking of chalices and tankards, for it is well known that nothing is such thirsty work as the acquisition of knowledge.

They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

I used that black magical elixir as amulet against all bad things and thoughts for that day. On the other hand, it was a liquid talisman for everybody else, to save them from being strangled by me.

In a cool solitude of treesWhere leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

I have never believed that things happen by themselves.

I always tell people: Life is the dance between what you desire most and what you fear most. You've got to be able to deal with the threshold of control.

I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty of it through abstract philosophizing.

The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.

When one loves, one does not calculate.