Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.