Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

The crime of loving is forgetting.

Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece.

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

I prefer old age to the alternative.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.

Bravery is good when the cause is good.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath day to me.

It is for this reason that Jesus left us the parable of the unfaithful servant, inviting us into a sincere fraternity in order that through it we could find the path of rehabilitation.

All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell the difference.

Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!

After months and months at the top of the polls, there is a real possibility that Donald Trump could be the nominee.

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.

You gotta imagine what's never been.

A man in business must put up many affronts if he loves his own quiet.