Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.

It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy.

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.

Woman softens her own troubles by generously solacing those of others.

Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on..."

If you continue to concentrate so deeply on the negative factors you are unable to acknowledge all the positive results.

I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.

Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.

Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents.

The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.

Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.

Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. He can only lose the woman.

He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.