What's 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 darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

There is far more happiness in a life that is your own than a life in which you are handed the lines to say and shown the gestures to make. Do not ever be ambitious.

When you are at your lowest God is getting ready to take you to your highest.

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.

To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.

Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.

We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.

Long and long has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round.