I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Humility is attentive patience.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.