We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.