Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Humility is attentive patience.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Each soul is potentially divine.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Freedom lies in being bold.