I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
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