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“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.”
— Robert Frost
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“On the 'Star,' you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.”
— Ernest Hemingway
“Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.”
— John F. Kennedy
“Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.”
— Rumi
“If you realize all the time what's kind of wonderful - that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience - every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything's pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.”
— Richard Feynman
“However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.”
— Donald Trump
“I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.”
— Douglas Coupland
“I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.”
— Gloria Steinem
“One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
— Albert Einstein
“I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.”
— Bob Marley
“Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.”
— George Orwell
“Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.”
— Victor Hugo
“A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society.”
— Seth Shostak
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
— Maya Angelou
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!”
— Karl Marx
“An army marches on its stomach.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
“I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.”
— Nelson Mandela