Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

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

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

What goes up must come down.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

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

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.