We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

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.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

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

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

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

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

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