Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.
We will either find a way, or make one.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
Definition of a bridegroom: A man who is amazed at the outcome of what he thought was a harmless little flirtation.
Happiness is action.
The greatest blessing of prayer is not receiving the answer, but being the kind of person God can trust with His answer.
At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
What is it that love does to a woman? Without it, she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.
One enemy is too many; a hundred friends too few.
I have lost friends, some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street.
The destiny of man is in his own soul.