Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.
Time wounds all heels.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
Never place a period where God has placed a comma.
You kissed me like that when I was a blushing bride. I wonder what I was blushing about
To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
Knowledge is speaking, Wisdom is listening.
To laughter! The bright coinage of the bank of good will.
I'll always be a word man, better than a bird man.
Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.
I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
To be good is to be in harmony with one's self. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
Count your age by friends, not years. count your life by smiles, not tears.
I can't say that the world is not that it is not - because it is just from mind.
One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.
I think my sudden love for this girl is a truer expression of myself than anything.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.