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

Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

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

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

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

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

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

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.