
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Strong women only marry weak men.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Everything in life is luck.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

The future is unwritten.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.