The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?
Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.
Like everybody I have many different sides.
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
Good and bad - this is the story of my life.
Asia is rich in people, rich in culture, and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.
I had my serious side - I idolized Bobby Kennedy; he was my role model. But so was Jerry Lewis.
I'm a person who thinks realistically but has dreams and fantasies as well.
There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.
Justice and I became friends, though we were opposites in many ways - he was extroverted, I was introverted; he was lighthearted, I was serious.
I'm attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I'm interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I'm interested in the things people try to hide.
So many plusses, so many minuses.
Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
I'm a child of extremes.
Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate.
You can't have an up without a down. You can't have a left without a right. This is duality. If you have a problem, you must already have the solution. The question is, do you really want the solution, or do you want to perpetuate the problem?
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.
Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.
As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products, of course.)
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.
A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.
We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?'
Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion.
