Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

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

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.