Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

Do I run around deploring the world? No. I'm just not into it. I was brought up that way.

There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.

Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.

I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It's too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it's got a stomach.

And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and so away.

America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.

Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

Ultimately, no man or woman is happy unless they have found a way to contribute beyond themselves.