Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

Life is not a race.....not a struggle, & bla bla ....We make it a race, struggle.It's we to decide how should it be. Actually Life is Present & the choices we choose in past.

The happiness of childhood, the calming of a child's fears and the healthy development of its self-confidence depend directly upon love.

Your greatest adventure is written inside of you

Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.

Tell 'em the truth and they call you a traitor, Talk to 'em honestly and they call you a hater.

Don't be sorry, Callie,' he says with a heavy-hearted sigh. 'You have your own sad story.

Love: A term which has no meaning if defined.

Overhead, the stars were wheeling and infinite, a complicated mobile made by giants.

We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.

My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country