The beauty of the past lies in-between the perpetual unhappiness of the future and of those who live it.

Life is too short when you think of the length of death

No one believes in Hell--until they get there.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.

Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them.

Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts.

Law it is . . . which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.

The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.