They suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it?

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.

Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

How good life is when one does something good and just!

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.'

It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.

Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.

To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son.

I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.

We are the hero of our own story.

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

It's against God's nature to remember forgiven sins

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.