What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

...the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.

The world's a scary place these days. Grandpa, , you've seen worse things, haven't you? Please tell me the world has always been like this.

Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles.

I believe that this is the time to become warriors for peace and dialogue, not warmongers or mere worriers.

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

Everything that you do or say that raises the self-esteem of another raises yours as well.

Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?

A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.

A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful planning beforehand.

I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?