I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

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

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

History is the devil's scripture.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

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

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.