If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that darkness flung me - Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.