Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.
One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.
History is the devil's scripture.
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
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.
The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
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.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
The less you know, the more you believe.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
Sometimes - history needs a push.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.