Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?

Passionate—that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment.

Travelers prove their lack of education if they make fun of the customs and values of their hosts, and the qualities that do a person honour are many and varied.

I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts.

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

He couldn't imagine, couldn't imagine the horror of scrubbing your own father's blood out of the floor. Better to set the whole house on fire, better to leave and never come back."pg 338

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.

As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.

Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.

The future of dance will always be tied up with the public's acceptance of the star. If they accept the star, then they'll accept the dance.

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions.

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside