Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.

Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.

If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.

Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.

Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.

Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star

We conclude that hedge funds are far riskier and provide much lower returns than commonly supposed.

I can't imagine anything that would make the world look more different than if women and girls were unequivocally enfranchised.

I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.

One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.