Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.

It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

In England, I'm this venerable old granddad, the one who always gets pissed at parties and puts a lampshade on his head.

I can have different opinions with anybody. I can still be a friend with that person.

Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?

My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

The friends who met here and embraced are gone, Each to his own mistake.