A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.

It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.

We are not supposed to run after miracles but we are supposed to run after self-perfection, self-growth, self - improvements.

Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5, 000 years.

At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.

My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.

The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

Don't pray for the rain to stop; pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.