The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.

In football, side netting can sometimes look like a real goal and it can make spectators jubilate for a moment, and then ponder! So is life!

Historically, the best way to convert liberals is to have them move out of their parents' home, get a job, and start paying taxes.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.

Do you believe in God?" "Which one?

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

She fell into a long sleep and dreamed the dreams of the Dream Tree.

I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.