but the effort of setting the table, heating up the food and then washing the dishes seemed to him tonight a superhuman one.

One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.

how often fears come to sour our life and prove, in the end, to have no foundation, no reason to exist

With grumble, nobody changes anything, even himself.

Almost ninety nine percent of relationships break because at least one of the two shows dishonesty – in whatever form or degree – towards it.

My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.

One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

God gave me a physical defect, I've accepted that since I was a kid. When I was a kid people were laughing at me. But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I'm grateful.

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.