I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Having a job is being busy

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

It seemed to me that I had come for the first time close to the soil of my native country, and could feel for the first time running in my veins Russia's vastness, her potency, her strength.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine.

When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

Optimism is the staunchest worshipper of life.

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.

Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed, So shall they be fulfilled.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.