Cynophilist: paradoxical being that often despises man and adores the dog, apparently, mainly because of the unconditional love that the latter has for the first.

The cruelest thing is love that leads us to deal with the parts of ourselves that we do not want to see, and this is what, in fact, we do not forgive each other.

At first, the wings weighed more than the chains, because with the chains we were not required to fly

They use fear to control us, they control us to make us afraid. One more reason to be brave.

I prefer to die fighting than living defeated

Many do not see that not to have dreams is far worse than seeing that their dreams do not come true.

There is the freedom you have when you are alone and there is the freedom that you have next to someone else. Blessed are those in which those two freedoms coincide.

Many of the most charming women I know possess at least on cat or dog. Maybe after getting used to an affectionate quadruped it is hard to settle for a man.

If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.

If you want to foresee the behavior of someone, their personality is a better predictor than their intelligence.

Sometimes we are more attached to the pain than the pain is attached to us.

Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts.

Thus with most careful devotionThus with precise attentionTo detail, interfering preparationOf that which is already preparedMen tighten the knot of confusionInto perfect misunderstanding.

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

If more persons would get so enthused over their day's work that some one would have to remind them to go out to lunch there would be more happiness in the world and less indigestion.

The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day

Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.

Some kisses are worth living for

O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness