If I get married, I want to be very married.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

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.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Nature is not human-hearted.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

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