The heart is a fragile thing, easily broken, but also capable of great strength.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

My mother was an atheist. She used to say that there was good news and bad news about hell. The good news is, hell is just the product of a morbid human imagination. The bad news is, whatever humans can imagine, they can usually create.

You could rattle the stars. You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.

The development of modern culture is characterized by the predominance of what one might call the objective spirit over the subjective spirit.