Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.

Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.

There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.

If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?

Sacrifices have to be made if you want to make a dent in the world, and that's what I started out to do - to make a dent in pop culture.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.