We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Stay simple like a candle, and never forget to enlighten the world.

The dawning of the light of awareness is the new birth, where the sun rises and the day breaks within you.

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.

Hockey is the only thing that I'm not good at that I love.

August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.

There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.

It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.

I mean, even New York isn't in any great shape anymore in relation to the rest of the world.

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.