The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry.

Can't say a body ever gets used to hard work

And men who do not expect to receive mercy eventually lose their inclination to grant it.

Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!).

My brain feels like a cool, deep lake.

Few know how to be old.

Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.

Two Santa Clauses on the corner. How can you tell the Polish one? The one with the Easter basket.

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

All troubles come to an end when the ego dies