Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

People were always asking for good sound proofs; doubt springs eternal in the human breast, even in countries where the Inquisition can read your very thoughts in your eyes.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.