Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Graciously honor the freedom at which Christmas so peacefully - came into being.

I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

You have to work hardest for the things you love most.

Tragedy is a literary concept.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like were supposed to.

All that is necessary to paint well is to be sincere.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.