Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

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.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

He wondered if there was anyone in the world who liked him. Liked him for himself alone.

After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try.

Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.

If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

My worst work happens when I get obedient.

To get audiences to go see a film is a completely separate issue.

The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.

Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.

Memory, the warder of the brain.