It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Harm seek, harm find.

Sometimes people just feel as if we want to try something to see if we can shake things up.

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.

We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.

Always make new mistakes.

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.

Looking for inspiration in expression, I have actually always looked to singers and violinists. I have never really looked only at the recorder as a remedy for my expressions.

There is only one group of people who do not have problems, and they are all dead. Problems are a sign of life, so the more problems you have, the more alive you are.

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.