The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

The truth is, life grows and evolved inside of you and, it has nothing to do with any other person except you. The truth of life grows and evolves, in the form of understanding.

America, the plum blossoms are falling.

The right ingredients can create a legend.

i change by not changing at all

As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the media could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan.

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?

The Christmas spirit is not what you drink.

If I am happy inside, then I live in paradise no matter where my residence is.

Judgment is forced upon us by experience

Orange? Like Effie's hair?" I say. "A bit more muted," he says. "More like sunset.