Judas betrayed Jesus. Lady Red betrayed John Dillinger. Those things happen.

Jesus said, ‚The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.‘ I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ‚kingdom,‘ he would have said, ‚dimension.‘ And ‚heaven‘ refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

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

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

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

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

I don’t believe in the war god of the Israelites. He’s a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius‘ wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

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.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

Everybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real – it happened when he was in Hell.

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across – not to just depict life – or criticize it – but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.