The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

You never know whose life you could change from a single act of kindness. There are so many broken people in this world that would truly appreciate your act of selflessness.

Dead or alive, you will retain all your rights.

He neither drank smoked nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally saving his money he died early surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.

... if the Republicans don't bring prosperity, who on earth is going to?

Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe.

A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now.

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

The only people who need to be "giving back" are thieves, criminals and corrupt individuals that are taking things that are not theirs.

Angels do not intend to intimidate or scare, but their overwhelming glory and being will stun us into sudden contact with what is far beyond us.