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.
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.
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
My wife and I have five children; the reason we have five children is because we do not want six.
Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage. It can be delightful.
Humor is reason gone mad.
I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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.
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Forever is composed of nows.
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
Time doth flit; oh shit.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
“Wealth is always attracted, never pursued
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.