Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

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.

New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information.

Things that other people do, or that happen to people you love, are some of the things you can't fight.

As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself ... All of which I've earned a living doing.

If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.

Each man is for his lord, do not give chase.

You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.

Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.

Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.

The worst thing a girl could do on a date is fart louder than me.

Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.