If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins.

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

The only Happy END that I know it's the weekEND!

We travel a lot and don't get enough time to spend with our family, and so we have to take our pictures, videos, also bother about things like which are the HD quality phones. So I'm very much a part of these typical things.

'Jab We Met' is the reason why I have become an actress.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

I'm happy about working; I'm happy about gracing the stage and coming out and making people laugh. I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It's the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.

I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.

Meditation must be continuous. The current of meditation must be present in all your activities.

I ended the war a horse ahead.

Don't be afraid to be a loner but be sure that you are correct in your judgement.

The situations we Army wives have to deal with are not normal ones at all. The nomadic life we lead, moving from station to station, being separated from our husbands for long stretches of time, and the constant fear that we live with if our husbands are anywhere near the sensitive areas in the country

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

On 'Flash,' you've never seen the last of anybody, no matter what happens to them.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can. I've been criticized on many, many occasions, because of - acquaintances, and what have you.

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.

My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books, and when you read a lot, I guess the muscle that gets exercised is where you can hear the voices in your head. You can turn words into pictures and into sounds and into colours and smells.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.