Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be - a cake, which I have eaten and had too.
Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Injections ... are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
My greatest weapon is mute prayer.
The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
You'll catch a liar before you'll catch a cripple.
Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Never apologize for showing feeling...When you do so, you apologize for truth.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fee.
Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
Perfection is a road, not a destination.
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
Justice is simply the advantage of the stronger.
A Democrat -- too poor to be a capitalist, too rich to be a Communist.
Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love.
We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.
Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.
There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.
Physical prowess is for cowards; a little pain builds character.
Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all.
In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.
The first victim of anger is the angry man.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven.
Freedom is participation in power.
