There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.

The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.

He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

Plan and plant your gifts. Pray and play your role. The harvest is assured when God manifests his anointing power in your passionate actions.

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.

That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.

The truth is, the longer it goes, the harder it gets.

In the future we'll be able to mentally contact anybody we want, see whatever image we want. And when we don't like it, we'll just turn it off.

Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death releases you into real life. You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.

I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.