What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Ask me if I sparkle and I’ll kill you where you stand.” (Bones)

There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

All progress comes from the creative minority.

my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

"What did you do?" I scream. "You die, I die too."

A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.

The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God's gift of life.