What's most revolting is that one is really sad! No, it's better at home. Here at least one blames others for everything and excuses oneself.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

His will to live was waning, and it made him almost transparent, as though rather than dying, he might just disappear one day, leaving behind only a vague scent of regret.

If you’re just starting out, don’t focus on the cheese, focus on the cow.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

When all that’s left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we’ll know what it means when the last human breath expires.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

Love mixed with fear is sweetness.

I played at Georgia, I coached at Alabama. I know how to beat both of them.

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.