A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.
Those who fled will fight another time.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
It always helps to know the answer when you are working toward the solution of a problem.
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
When you open a door, don't forget to close it. Treat your mouth accordingly.
Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers.
All art is an imitation of nature.
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes to the bone.
I'm going to live forever. Or die trying.
I believe that sex is the most beautiful, natural, and wholesome thing that money can buy.
After hearing two eyewitness accounts of the same accident, you begin to wonder about history.
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist invents the parachute.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean.
Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have.
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
One good thing about my computer: it never asks why.
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
