“All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are.”
“People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.”
“What a piece of work is man!”
“He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.”
“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
“The nature of God is to bless the human but the nature of human is to live with his curses”
“It s really a wonder that I haven t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
“there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars”
“Most times, it s just a lot easier not to let the world know what s wrong.”
“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.”
“...One thing you learn when you ve lived as long as I have-people aren t all good, and people aren t all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I m pleased to be in the light.”
“The idea that I can t share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.”
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
“Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.”
“As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.”