A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

You can create the best out of your life by understanding the wealth of time and converting that time into the life that you were created to live.

How could we be sorrow, if there is a song?

Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists.

To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.

There are few things in the world that we don't know. Science has explained everything away.

You are part of a complex social network that changes your biology with every interaction, and which your actions can change.

I've worked with children all my life.

I know they say (Stalin) killed 20, 30, 40 million people. It's bullsh*t. (I have yet to find) one crime that Stalin committed.

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Intuition is often mistaken, but not altogether.