Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
If I had no sense of humor, I should long ago have committed suicide.
Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.
Judas needed the money for a sick friend.
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now," without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.
All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign.
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Envy eats nothing but its own heart.
The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
To live long, it is necessary to live slowly.
There is honor among thieves.
I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them.