In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

The truth is, the source of existence is infinite and to discover the essence of it is an unfolding that lasts for eternity.

If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.

The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.

Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and youll have neither a craft nor a community.

I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.

Sports also teaches you that it's about the team, and the better your teammates are, the better they make you.

To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.

It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.