To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.
I restore myself when I'm alone.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
