Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.