Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Don't be a martyr to your imagination.

It's clever but is it art?

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

I grew up cursing a lot.

In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.

If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

I don't always run in the mornings, but I am definitely better if I run in the mornings.

Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.