To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

Let my country die for me.

Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?

He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium for all this misery.

The federal government views the Constitution as its enemy.

You know the drill. 18 is legal. 17 with consent. 16 with a note. 15 if her dad's in the room. Low five!

Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper.

Be fresh and new when perceiving the other. Always look for the highest first, look for the intrinsic beauty and goodness, for the essence of spirit in your partner.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.

The surest step toward joy in the morning is virtue in the evening.