To grow old means to be rid of anxieties about the past.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.

Self-governing cultures both inspire alignment and eject elements that don't fit in.

Ungentlemanliness?” he teased. “I dare you to say that five times fast.

Going to AA helped me to see that there were other people who had problems that had found a way to talk about them and find relief and humor through that.

We must trust as if it all depended on God and work as if it all depended on us

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

I'm a confession that is waiting to be heard

Control the publics perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!

Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.

The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.