Where was my guardian angel when I needed him most? If only I knew.

Nobody should have to choose between a cold heart and a dead heart.

A boy has other people do the talking for him; a man speaks his mind.

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

It is never cruel to want to save yourself from being swamped by fools.

Remorse shows the difference between a cruel person and one that is not.

I must be cruel only to be kind;Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

(...) ograniczenie umysłowe i okrucieństwo ludzkie nie zna granic.

There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

True monsters are not those lurking under the bed, but the ones sleeping in it.

If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.

A wife who obsesses on "fixing" her husband only succeeds in demeaning him.pg 48