The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

The greatest journey of discovery that the human can take is not through the universe or to the remotest location on earth, it is the voyage through the human mind.

Stay Alive in Your Own Life

Just once, I wanted to lose something without the whole world watching.

While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.

I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.

Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people.

It's not for me to say from the outside what the Palestinian people should have. That would be very arrogant.

I believe in the principles that built America, I believe in the Constitution.

If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.

If there is a God what the hell is He for?