When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

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.

You do not have to worhip god to be good and you certainly do not have to be good to worship god.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar instead of how little he can give for a dollar is bound to succeed.

Without trust, the most essential element of innovation - conflict - becomes impossible.

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.