Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

I'm watching you, big boy, my eyes say, but his are closed so it's an optical monologue.

Don't be quick to leave the class of discipline

You must value something highly to go to war to improve it

Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.

We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.

Don't get attached to anything.