For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.
Thought is free.
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
A person preaches well that lives well.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.