The day of individual happiness has passed

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Dare to risk public criticism.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.