Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.

Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods. [Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.]

I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.

We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.

If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?

Beatles, women and children first!

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.