A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

he place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

To love is to recognize yourself in another.

Compassion is the basis of morality.