Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.

For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die.

Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

There's no believing in God...We either know God, or we don't.

Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.