Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

A real man wants two things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman as the most dangerous plaything.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.