The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally read more

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the read more

When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

The trouble you can get into, just cause you want 5, 000 bucks.

The trouble you can get into, just cause you want 5, 000 bucks.

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose read more

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute read more

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.