“Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.”

You put the life in your belly and you live.

I swear so soon as age will permit … I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome.

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

The mongoose I want under the stairs when the snakes slither by.

As a doctor I had no choice. As a philosopher I had too many.

Perception is a tool that’s pointed on both ends.

I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.

I will either find a way or make one.

Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

We’re like socks. You can put us through a rough wash once, but you’ll never use us again.

The mirrors in your mind can reflect the best of yourself, not the worst of someone else.

We will find a way or we shall make one

All good things to those who wait.

Killing must feel good to God too. He does it all the time. Did God feel good about that? He felt powerful.

Words are living things. They have personality, point of view… agenda.

The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.

Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.

I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don’t like to hear happy albums, and when I am really sad I don’t wanna hear happy albums… and I tend to gravitate towards the lonely and isolated anyway when I write.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.