Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight.

. . . things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them.

Only God can thwart the plans of Satan and his legions.

It's best to let her go, " he says.No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.

The German Fuhrer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consistently sought to make the practices of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.

We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.

You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success.

People loved their horses, too. But you don't keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.