What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.

Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.

If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.

I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.

We are all human beings with our own little knick-knacks and ways of doing things.

I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.

In the manger God loves you; through the cross God saves you. But has he taken you to his home? Not yet.

Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?

You read too much and understand too little.