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.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

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

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

My art and profession is to live.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

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

Pain don't hurt.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

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

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.