Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

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.

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

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

Make sure you date someone who always makes you want to dance, with or without music.

Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.

This thing of being a hero about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

I know I'm not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle cars.

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.

Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else.