The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.
Fear is incomplete knowledge.
Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.
I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Very few of us are what we seem.
Assumptions are dangerous things.
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
No innocent person ever has an alibi.
Books are a habit-forming drug.
In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.
To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
Things never come when they are expected.
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.
Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
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