A planned life is a dead life.
He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave.
Too much rest is rust.
Equality may perhaps be a right, but it will never be a reality.
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.
Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.
The attempt to produce Heaven on Earth often produces Hell.
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more.
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Music is too big for just one station, love is too big for just one nation and God is too big for just one religion.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Always buy good shoes, and a good bed. Because if you aren't in one, you're in the other.
Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.
Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
If you can't sleep, don't count sheep. Talk to the Shepherd.
God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
A lie has no legs.
