To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.