Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality.

I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like "It's really hard and it's going to take 10 years, so I was like "OK, I'll just be a lawyer."

Cable cars are fun - everyone gets on board and becomes a rhesus monkey.

Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.

I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.

The dead hand of research lies heavy on too many novels.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.

A good lather is half the shave.