Despair is the shortest road to disaster.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
The real question isn't whether you love your kids or not, but how well you are able to demonstrate your love and caring so that your children really feel loved.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
Happiness is being married to your best friend.
The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
Don't place question mark in the place where God already place a full stop.
Always tell the truth; then you won't have to remember anything else.
Be nice to people on your way up, because you're going to meet them all on your way down.
People don't like reality, they don't like common sense, until age forces it on them.
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
Beware of a silent dog and still water.
A poor man who takes a rich wife has a ruler, not a wife.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
If lawyers had been present on Mount Sinai, the Ten Commandments would have twelve hundred amendments, all summing to the conclusion: The rich may ignore the rules, the poor will be hanged if they violate the smallest subordinate clause.
Don't buy problems, they're giving them away for free.
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
My best friend is he who rights my wrongs or reproaches my mistakes.
Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
Maids want nothing but husbands, but when they have them they want everything.
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Children are ambassadors from another dimension and should be treated with diplomatic courtesy.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Love is blind. Marriage is the eye-opener.
Love is when you don't want to go to sleep because reality is better than a dream.
Marriage - is an expensive way of getting your laundry done for free.
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
We are most alive when we're in love.
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
The glass is not half-empty, it's just twice as big as it needs to be.