All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

The way to peace is not love, but Christ.

O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly.

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

Usually, your personality doesn't come out on the cover of Vogue. If the photographer says, "Smile," you smile. You might not be in a good mood that day, but you're smiling anyway.

Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised

Look past the garbage over the trains, Under the ruins through the remains, Around the crime and pollution, And tell me where I fit in?..

My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn't do herself. She always taught by example.

If you don't invest in the characters, you don't care if they get killed. It's more fun if you know them.

Allegories drawn to great length will always break.