It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

I would say happy new year but it's not happy

We live in an increasingly chaotic world and it takes a conscious and concerted effort to protect one’s humanity.

But Krishna was a chameleon.

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

It's always morning for me until 4 in the afternoon.

Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party.

Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"

I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans arent. They all have different feelings about the war.

Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.

However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.