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.
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.
Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.
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.
Fear is incomplete knowledge.
No innocent person ever has an alibi.
Very few of us are what we seem.
Books are a habit-forming drug.
... nothing is so boring as devotion.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Assumptions are dangerous things.
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?
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.
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
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.
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.
Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.
The tragedy of life is that people do not change.
What good is money if it can't buy happiness?
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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