Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Saints need sinners.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I’d just go back to Virginia.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

Yes, there is a terrible moral in ‚Dorian Gray‘ – a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.