After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
The arch of history is long, but it bends towards justice.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for courage.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
People who do things exceed my endurance; god, for a man that solicits insurance!
Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a marxist.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-off at tedium and counter productivity.
On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the salt water off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid i've lost the knack.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.