Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!

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.

Sow yourself first and foremost in something today

if the ocean can calm itself, so can you.we are both salt water mixed with air.

Bloom where you are planted.

If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.

Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye.

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

If somebody tries to tell me the earth was created in 7 days I take a fossil and say "FOSSIL". If he still won't shut up I throw it at him.

If you wanna go somewhere, you can do; nothing is stopping you.

Bashar Assad clearly doesn't want to hear anything that impugns his government.

I don't know how you can go through a four-hour match with Rafa and he never gets a time violation.