...she was betting on the fact that people were basically good, despite all the Evil in the world.

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

Love, too, was just a question of time

Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.

And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.

They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.

Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.

Men who have nothing to lose never give a thought for eternal life.

How lucky I am to lose sleep over such a work of art.

We cannot improve until we know where to improve. Self-analysis is just like looking at the mirror, we don’t present ourselves to others till the time we get satisfied with the image in the mirror.

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.

Pride costs nothing, yet it is especially precious when it can be “purchased” at someone else’s expense.

A world without braves is a world without heroes, but a world without wisdom is a world of animals.

We have to have some form of politics. Politics is a form of resolving conflicts. Politics which comes from sincere motivation is constructive.

By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living.

An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.