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.
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.
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?
The attempt to produce Heaven on Earth often produces Hell.
There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.
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.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
A lie has no legs.
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more.
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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.
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.
Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
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.
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
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.
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
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.
The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.
Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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.
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!
Charity begins at home.
It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand.
