We know there are lots of leaks everywhere. There's nothing we can do about that, except not leak ourselves.
The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.
When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.
The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.
great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
But the way to wealth through the quill seems long.
The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.
Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.