a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it

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.

Language is the dress of thought.

I wouldn't have wished for something hoping that I wouldn't get it. I wouldn't have wished for it knowing that I'd get it

It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized.

Gasahol is socialism's fuel.

For some reason, people always assign high cheekbones to some ethnicity, but apparently by their regards, everybody on earth has high cheekbones. So I don't know if that matters.

The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.

Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.

Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.