Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
Sometimes - history needs a push.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
The past is the best prophet of the future.
Diamonds are a girls best friend.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.
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.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.