A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour