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.
The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.
love the life you live.live the life you love.
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
