You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

A senseless tragedy remains forever tragic, but it is up to us whether it remains forever senseless.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine.

There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.

Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.